peace to my brother tony from no doubt golden temple amritsar helluva city anthony: the punjab of the early 20th century saw some of the most violent resistance to british rule. and when the british finally cashed out in 1947, they carved off a huge piece. what is now pakistan. and it remains a potential flashpoint for conflict. but that s easy to forget when you first smell the food. there we go. kesar da dhaba. dhaba meaning side of the road food stall. and there are like countless dhabas to choose from in this town, but this one is legendary. see tony eat vegetables. and like it! you eat around this part of the world, punjab in particular, get
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hastiest, ill-considered partitions imaginable. beyond there, no more fence? uday: no more fences. anthony: so it s - once you get past there, you can go straight into pakistan if you want. uday: the problem is the thing is, india is trying to stop people from coming in. the infiltrators, you know, drug dealers and terrorists. anthony: uday is working on a documentary about the indian-pakistan border. uday: no one wants to go into pakistan. anthony: no one wants to go into pakistan. uday: no one wants to in their right mind wants to go into pakistan. anthony: well really that s a fairly decisive statement. so, they put up a fence but the fence is on the indian side. uday: yeah. it s uh, one fifty meters, from the border. anthony: right. so beyond that fence, still indian farmland. uday: yes. anthony: so people who live over here can farm over there. uday: can farm over there. anthony: the punjab is a fertile region in an otherwise very dry country. thi
uday: he was given two months, you know. anthony: two months to divide create a new country basically. uday: two months to divide the so he took the map, and just drew a line. you know people died because of the displacement. unofficially they say it s two million people. you know when giants fight, the minnows get trampled upon. anthony: in one of the largest exchanges of populations in history, many millions of people fled their homes. almost immediately, religious violence broke out on a mass scale. this is exactly what the partition had been intended to avoid. do people here still have families over there? uday: yeah, they do. when the line was drawn, they were villages that were really just split into half. there are some houses where you enter from india and you exit from pakistan. anthony: really. wow. uday: this part of punjab, and that part of punjab, they were one state. so, the culture, the eating habits, it was just very similar. anthony: well it s a pop
like a fairy tale. [ horn ] [ tires screeching ] anthony: day one in northern india, near the pakistan border. [ horn ] this is amritsar, the indian punjab s largest city. [ tires screeching ] population, about a million. this is a part of india i ve never seen, a place i ve always been curious about, home to some pretty legendary cuisine. in amritsar they have a saying the best food isn t