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Heart and Soul: Walking the Kartarpur Corridor for Guru Nanak

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06/12/2019 GMT

Walking the Kartarpur Corridor for Guru Nanak

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Walking the Kartarpur Corridor for Guru Nanak

Crossing India's border with Pakistan for Guru Nanak

Crossing the Indian Pakistan border for Guru Nanak

The Kartarpur Corridor crosses one of the most dangerous and contentious borders in the world, and is generally shut to travellers, but, hundreds of thousands of Sikhs have crossed it to mark the 550th birthday of Guru Nanak, the founder of their religion. 
 
The chance to visit the magnificent monument to him, is all down to a highly unusual level of diplomacy between India and Pakistan, all in the name of Sikhism, a religion which has always straddled the divisions between Hinduism and Islam.
 
Nina Robinson travels with the pilgrims on a highly personal and emotional journey taking in the villages and towns of her Punjabi family to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib one of the holiest places in Sikhism.

Presenter and Producer Nina Robinson 
Image :  Kartarpur Nina Robinson/BBC  
Music of Bhai Gulab Muhammed Chand recorded by Jasdeep Singh 
Dilruba scales music by Jasdeep Singh 

Image: Nina Robinson/BBC

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