From pride to anxiety: Illegals from ancestral village of Sunita Williams go incommunicado | India News – The Times of India

AHMEDABAD: Jhulasan in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar had an unlikely lift-off to fame two decades ago when it emerged as the village to which Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams traces her roots. The comfort of obscurity is what its 5,000-odd residents might now prefer as spotlight shifts to around two dozen men from the village, all illegal immigrants…

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‘That is where my grandfather was killed’: What Manmohan Singh said about visiting his ancestral village in Pakistan | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh once offered a poignant response when asked whether he would return to his ancestral village in Pakistan. Born in Gah, a village now in Pakistan’s Punjab Chakwal district, Singh’s connection to the place was irrevocably marked by tragedy. When one of his daughters asked if he wished…

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