AMRITSAR: A `clay model’ from Belgium has found its place at the historic Sikh History Research Centre (SHRC) of Khalsa College Amritsar (KCA). A specimen in remembrance of those Sikh soldiers who fought during the world wars, the model, brought from Europe, was handed over to the College Principal Dr. Atam Singh Randhawa recently at the campus.
Belgium city Ypres’ Mayor Katrien Desomer presented the clay model to Dr Davinder Singh Chhina, Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) Member and College alumni who visited the city last month. The historic memento, as he called it, is one of the thousands carved by the people of Belgium in memory of the brave soldiers who lost lives in the battlefields of the First World War.
He said the model is the ‘mark of respect’ to the brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives for humanity and democratic rights. “Made from clay from the battlefields, the very soil on which the soldiers, especially Sikh brave-hearts fought and died. The figure in the model is designed by world-famous Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen . It represents a bent and crouching figure. A human being in its most vulnerable state”, said Chhina.