![]() ![]() At10.30, the passenger train from Delhi steamed in. The Mullah said his prayer at the mosque while the temple priest lay in bed. The people of Mano Mazra awoke by listening to the whistling sound of the Lahore Mail train. In the darkness of the silent night the whistling, puffing and iron couplings of engines were heard. There was a railroad bridge near the railway station on the Sutlez river and a small colony for vendors, shopkeepers and hawkers were in sight to cater victuals in short time to the passengers of unimportant trains. ![]() There were several flat-roofed mud huts with a dusty path, and a pond of water at the end of the village was surrounded by keekar trees. The Hindu shrine, the Sikh Gurudwara, and the mosque were situated in a triangular space with a peepal tree nearby. ![]() There were some Christian and untouchable families too. There were Muslim and Sikh families in equal numbers. Mano Mazra was a village in which families of many castes lived.
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