The Night of Freedom
Bandi Chhor Divas
On a night when Amritsar glows with lamps, a child asks a grandfather what the lights mean. The answer is a story remembered by Sikhs for more than four hundred years: Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji's release from Gwalior Fort, and the fifty-two captives whose freedom he would not leave behind.
It is a story about a simple, demanding idea: freedom is not complete while it is kept for oneself.