My last post of Kuldhara talked about the unique migration story of the Paliwal Brahmins of Kuldhara. However any story about Kuldhara is incomplete if we don't talk about the watchman who guards the gate of this site. When we visited this place the first time as well as the second time, what really touched me about him was the respect he had in his heart for the Armed Forces people.
After we left Kuldhara what I learnt about this watchman was more intriguing than the village itself. Legend goes that as the Paliwal Brahmins left in 1825, they cursed death upon anyone who ever came to live in this village. Apparently the watchman lost his two sons, their wives, his daughter and his own wife to a mysterious illness, all because he decided to make a ramshackle hut inside the boundary wall of the village his home.
Unbelievable isn't it?
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