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ALLEGORY: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak’s Travels

Posted on September 30, 2021 Posted By: Amardeep Singh Categories: Blog, Travel

In the borderless world of the 15th century people travelled distances to trade, rulers invaded to expand territories, and Nanak glided across the geographies to spread the message of Humanity. During his travels, Guru Nanak covered a large geographical tapestry which in the 21st century comprised of 9 nations: Pakistan, India, China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. To break barriers across faiths by engaging in spiritual dialogues, Guru Nanak visited numerous Islamic, Sufi, Buddhist and Hindu sites. Between 15th-16th century the universal narratives of Guru Nanak’s travels were rendered only to oral tradition. In the 17th century the oral narratives were strengthened by documenting them in the form of books known as janam sakis. Today, in the 21st, the janam sakis are forgotten and division of geographies as sovereign nations have made many of the historic sites inaccessible. Thus, there is a compelling need to explore and film the sites visited by Guru Nanak so that the faded memories can be kept alive. Allegory, which means the revelation of a hidden meaning, is a tapestry of Guru Nanak’s travels. It is the first documentary series to chronicle the vast expanse of 9 countries that were visited by Guru Nanak. Through exploration and documentation of sites in the 21st century, interspersed with narratives of the past, the universal message of Guru Nanak is presented in the 24 episode docuseries available on TheGuruNanak.com

Comments(5)

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    Ajay Tripathi says:
    September 30, 2021 at 5:33 PM

    Thanks for this exceptional efforts. It’s first of it’s kind presentation of Guru Nanak’s travel across so many countries very few would be aware about. Looking forward to see it desperately.

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    Bahadur Singh says:
    September 30, 2021 at 5:44 PM

    Thank you for your work Bhai Amardeep Singh ji. it takes a huge courage first to conceive such an idea to trace the footprints of Guru Nanak and second to really execute such idea. Guru Nanak’s teachings are timeless and will continue to enlighten the people who seek truth and meaning. He travelled around the world and spread the message of universal oneness, which breaks the ethnocentric mindset of people in the past and present. The modern ideas of acceptance of diversity in colour, ethnicity, gender, nationality are all started from him.
    Your work is a beautiful example to the students of Anthropology. Looking forward to meet you in your next visit to Chandigarh.

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    Raj Mehta says:
    September 30, 2021 at 8:30 PM

    The trailer of the series is itself well structured as an allegory and introduced by Amardeep who had earlier done adequate justice to the Sikh legacy in Pakistan including its tragic recall in Muzaffarabad, now in POK, where his own family were resident before partition.
    Amardeep is a photographer-chronicler who also brought General Zorawar Singh dramatically to life and documented his death in Tibet near the British Indian-Nepal-Tibet border gallantly fighting for the Sikh Empire…against savage odds.
    A man with a mission and great resolve and skill, I wish his venture enough.

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    Rajinder Singh says:
    October 1, 2021 at 6:05 PM

    Amardeep thrust to explore his heritage place Muzaffarabad in Pakistan by punitive traveling 30 days brought before us “Lost Heritage” followed by 60 days painstaking traveling presented the Quest Continue followed with meticulous jolting the script, design and publishing the same.
    An Allegory the trailer of the series is itself well-composed and introduction by Amardeep was geniuses which is nothing but ( ਸ਼ਾਖਸ਼ਾਤ ) blessings of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji

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    Baljit Singh Sidhu MD,FACS says:
    October 1, 2021 at 11:34 PM

    Amardeep
    You continue to amaze me with your unrelenting quest for the truth about our heritage and your exceptional work. Your story about how your family had to leave Pakistan and start a new life in India and how your father managed to get your two cousins to rejoin their mother was so heart wrenching. Doon school it seems instilled great values in you as did for many of us who studied in some other schools of similar league in north India.
    Continue the great work my friend and may Waheguru keep you and your family blessed. Hope one day if I get to visit Singapore we will meet. In the mean time if you are visiting US please let me know. We would love to host you.
    Warm regards.

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