Soldiers turned farmers: Punjab’s tryst with India’s southernmost tip completes 50 years

Pune | Tuesday | 23rd April, 2019

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“We will felicitate some of the veteran resettlers, including widows, who were among the first to relocate to Campbell Bay in 1969. AdvertisingAccordingly, all the Punjabi families gathered at Ludhiana station and took a train to Kolkata. But they were setting out to build new homes and begin life anew on the densely covered Campbell Bay island, which housed Indira Point, the southernmost tip of India until the December 2004 tsunami destroyed and submerged it. However, in the mid-1960s, poachers from Myanmar started frequenting this Great Nicobar Island (GNI), worrying then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Among them were several veterans of World War II with their families, many of who had never seen a beach before..