East of Indus: My Memories of Old Punjab

Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard was born and raised in his ancestral village Mehraj, in the province of Punjab which during the British rule extended from the Indus River to Jamuna, a tributary of Ganges. He quit college in 1946 to start farming in his village. In 1950 he started college education again, and after an M.S. degree from Punjab University, he taught physics at Khalsa College, Amritsar. In 1957 he was admitted to the University of Washington in Seattle and after obtaining a Ph.D. degree, he worked for 20 years as a nuclear physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, run by the University of California. Since retiring he has run more than twenty marathons, including the Boston Marathon in 2005. He lives at Lake Tahoe (PO Box 2401, Stateline, NV 89449), but also spends time in the San Francisco area.