Review Excerpt:

Dr. Gurnam Singh Brard, now settled in Nevada, USA, left Punjab about half a century ago. However, the early years of his life spent in his village in Punjab kept haunting him all these years. Despite a successful career in America, Dr. Brard’s passion for his village is still intact. “In old age, riches in America cannot make up the loss of separation from extended family and break from the ancestral village land”, he expresses his feelings thus. The resulting book East of Indus, My memories of Old Punjab, covering all that has been on his mind for years.

In East of Indus, he covers a broad range of topics closely associated with village life - joint family, caste system, sexual mores, superstitions, marriage customs, death and mourning rituals, festivals, fairs, food, entertainment , leisure and pastime activities, etc. Nothing escapes his notice from women fights, Deor- Bhabi relation, farmer- sharecropper deal and dependence of menial castes on land owning Jats. Many forgotten house hold items like chati, taura, kujja, magha, Chhanna, Hara, Chakki, Ukhali etc come to mind. A Jalsa (function) of Nachar (dancer) or Naqalis (comedians) were sources of great amusements.