![]() ![]() So, to work in English, in 1952 he joined the United States Information Services, which enabled him to go to the US and earn a degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. ![]() Although he loved the language and its poetry he was told there was no future in Urdu journalism because it was now the national language of Pakistan. He began his career on an Urdu newspaper, Anjam, in 1948. Kuldip, who had dropped the Singh from his name, settled in Delhi. When violence broke out at partition in 1947, the family migrated to India. Kuldip studied at Forman Christian College then the Law College in Lahore, obtaining a law degree. Kuldip was born in the Punjab city of Sialkot, which is now in Pakistan, the son of Puran Devi and Gurbaksh Singh, a doctor who, Kuldip said, “blended the traditions of Sikhism and Hinduism”. He worked throughout his life to improve relations between Pakistan and India, and established the vigil that is still held on the Wagah-Attari border near Amritsar at midnight on 14/15 August, the hour that marks the end of Pakistan’s independence day (and Kuldip’s birthday) and the beginning of India’s. ![]() The day after he died, an article he had just written was published, saying: “It is paramount that the centre should concentrate more on good governance rather than imposing its Hindutva policies.” ![]() He also spoke out against the current Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) policies of Narendra Modi’s government and what he saw as the “soft Hindutva” of today’s Indian media. ![]()
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