The saga of Maharaja Duleep Singh is not just a story of an individual; it is a story of two nations. Born on 4th September 1838, Duleep Singh was the youngest son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh who established the Sikh Kingdom “Sarkar-e-Khalsa�? with the victory over Lahore in 1799, and spread his territory up to Sindh, Tibet and Afghanistan. Time witnessed the glory of the Sikh Kingdom, which had grown into an Independent state of conspicuous wealth and power and became the most formidable fighting machine outside British India which lasted for almost 50 years (1799-1849).

Maharaja Ranjit Singh died on 27th June 1839. On 2nd February 1844 at the tender age of five, Duleep Singh was proclaimed as the Maharaja of Punjab and his mother Rani Jind Kaur became regent. In December 1845, war broke out between the Sikh and British army. The Sikhs lost the Anglo-Sikh wars. Rani Jindan was put under house arrest; where as the young Maharaja was taken away to Mussorrie, where he was put under the guardianship of Dr. Sir John Login and his wife, lady Login. On 8th March 1853 at the age of 14, the Sikh Maharaja was baptised as a Christian and his unshorn hair was cut. In April 1854, Duleep Singh sailed to England under a deep conspiracy, master minded by Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor General of British India. Lord Dalhousie also took away the priceless relics of the Sikh Kingdom to England, including the Kooh-i-noor (diamond), the Golden Throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the plume of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, and many other prestigious items from the Lahore treasury.

This saga (Monument of Injustice) also tells the tale of the injustice done to Rani Jindan, who spent almost 15 years in exile and died in England, in August 1863. Once in England the deposed Maharaja was never allowed to return to his native land Punjab although he tried (on three occasions). He settled in England with his wife and six children and spent 40 years in exile. Duleep Singh fought for his legal rights in a much civilised way; and was still denied justice. On his final attempt to return to Punjab he was detained by the British forces at Aden. May 25th, 1886 he returned to his original faith ’Sikhism’ by being baptized with ‘Amrit’ by five Sikhs at Aden (Middle East). Loosing all hope, he finally went to Paris, and died on 22nd October 1893.

The story does not end here… His body was buried at the Elveden Estate in UK, against the basic tenets of his faith. His last wish to establish the Sikh Raj and to be cremated in Punjab remained unfulfilled. Well! This should put curtains to this tragic saga, but could we accomplish what Duleep Singh set to achieve?

Touching life story.....

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For
many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's
showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told
him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited
signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the
morning of his graduation his father called him into his private
study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine
son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son
a beautiful wrapped gift box.

Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man
opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible. Angrily,
he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you
give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the holy
book.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in
business.
He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his
father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He
had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make
arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had
passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He
needed to come home immediately and take care things.
When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and
regret filled his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and
saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With
tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he
read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope
taped behind the Bible.
It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the
sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation,
and the words...PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not
packaged as we expected?

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This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once

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