Jagraon in Ludhiana district holds the Roshni mela at the shrine of Baba Mohkam Din, a Muslim pir, in February and March. It is one of the largest fairs in the Malwa and it is attended overwhelmingly by Sikhs and Hindus.
The mela is a singing occasion above all. Punjabi folk singers and later the commercial Punjabi music industry treated a slot at Jagraon as a career marker for decades.
The Gurdwara Nanaksar at Jagraon is a separate institution and a major one in its own tradition.
Dhudike, the birthplace of Lala Lajpat Rai, and Rurka Kalan are within the same belt.
A Muslim saint's fair, in a district with almost no Muslim population, kept up by Sikh villagers for eighty years since the congregation left, is a fair description of a good deal of rural Punjabi religion.
The Roshni mela runs three days around the shrine and draws from across the Malwa. Its singing competitions were, for decades, where a Punjabi singer without a recording could be heard by thousands.
The akhara circuit of the Malwa fairs is where most of the Punjabi popular music of the twentieth century was first tested, and a singer who could not hold a mela crowd did not go further.
Jagraon is a grain market town and the tehsil headquarters for a large agricultural block. Dhudike, a few kilometres away, has a memorial and a library at the birthplace of Lala Lajpat Rai.