Bøger af Pally Dhillon

Collection of emotional and romantic letters

Footprints on the African Savanna is the story of a Sikh woman, Amrita Kaur Dhillon, who wrote fifty pages in her own handwriting about her childhood, her parents, her in-laws and her life growing up and then surviving in East Africa. Unfortunately, she passed away before she could finish writing and publishing her story. Amrita belonged to a generation of pioneering Sikh women in East Africa who were born there in the early part of the twentieth century, and worked tirelessly to raise their families. This is her story, from birth to a glorious childhood which ended abruptly when she married at the age of fourteen and was thrust into the busy and demanding life of a large Sikh family who were one of the early settlers in East Africa. The manuscript narrates the intriguing life experiences of Amrita's father and father-in-law, who were pioneers, professionals, hunters and business owners. The reader will be engrossed in her struggles, hardships, and daring adventures as she attempts to support her husband, his family, and her own children in the vast, raw, and often turbulent countries of Kenya and Tanganyika. She was a big game hunter, ran businesses in the nomadic Maasailand and drove large trucks to transport goods through the roughest terrains in East Africa. The story narrates her father's life who was a surgeon, was born in India and then spent his life in Somalia and Kenya. The story also encompasses her father-in-law Mehar Singh was also born in India and then moved to Kenya to work on the Railway line in Kenya from the coastal town of Mombasa to Kisumu, the town on Lake Victoria. Mehar becomes a successful entrepeneur and then goes into politics. The storyline reflects Amrita's inner strength and willpower when with all the odds against her she fights her way through and ensures the survival of her extended family and her children.

To portray the issues and crises of a Diaspora culture in East Africa is one thing, but to write about them using the tools of various genres is quite another. Pally Dhillon has written a story about the clash of divergent cultures, of diametrically opposed religious beliefs, of the political and social struggles of a man who journeyed across the Indian Ocean to help build a life, a family, and a society. Kijabe is an impressive effort. Borrowing devices from popular genres--from murder mysteries and love stories, from political thrillers, Dhillon tells the story of his grandfather, a poor Sikh emigrant who went to Kenya to work for the railroad industry, operated by the British at the beginning of the twentieth century.Kijabe is the fictional account of Dhillon¹s life-long research into the life of his ancestor. The history and culture underscoring the narrative greatly enrich the reader¹s experience and keep the story from falling into the trappings of genre fiction.

It is an epic tale of family, friends, and the close-knit ties that bindâeven through separation and betrayal, poverty and wealth, terrorism and war. Walk With Pride is the engrossing story of three Indian patriarchsâMehar Singh, Shahbaz Khan and Nanak Chandâchildhood friends who immigrate to different countries in East Africa in the early 20th Century and whose lives are forever intertwinedâand changedâthrough the vagaries of life.Go with these blood brothers, their fathers and grandfathers, their children and descendants, as they vividly relive the Mau Mau freedom movement in Kenya; deadly friction and brutal warfare between the Sikhs and Hindus in India; dangerous elephant hunts in Tanzania; and unthinkable turmoil as the Indian population is deported en masse from Uganda under the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin.Experience life in the trenches, as three beautiful Moslem women are abused, raped, and left for dead by Indian Sikhs. Who is the traveling Iranian rug merchant who takes pity on them and, endangering his own life, hides them and adopts them as his own family. Where will they go as the trauma of the Iranian Revolution erupts all around them? As this thrilling and daunting generational love story nears its heart-stopping conclusion, two of its brightest stars are trapped in the crossfire of a genocidal civil war between the savage Tutsis and Hutus. Captured, they await their execution. When family members hire mercenaries to go with them on a desperate helicopter rescue attempt, centuries of love, promise, and hope are on the line. Will they succeed? Will their loved ones live to discover the unfathomable secrets that silently bind their hearts together?