When Hindus left West Punjab at the time of the partition, they also left behind assets worth billions of rupees. With the exception of Jalandhar and some areas (now in Haryana), they did not participate in the killing of Muslims in East Punjab. Sikhs took charge of the machine to kill and annihilate the Muslim […]
Punjabi Hindus: forlorn and on the path to extinction III
In reality, the war was between Punjabis and those from the UP and Bihar because a large number of recruits of the Pakistan army were from Punjab and on the other side, the Indian army had the bulk of soldier recruitment from the UP and Bihar. The war of 1971 added fuel to the fire […]
Punjabi Hindus: forlorn and on the path to extinction II
The Sikhs for a long time had complained and wailed over the appalling conditions of their historical and holy gurudwaras in west Punjab. Many writers and correspondents of west Punjab had extended them support to voice their concerns. If we were to compare the two, the difference in the conditions of the two is worlds […]
Punjabi Hindus: forlorn and on the path to extinction I
Just as a piece of paper knows not where it will land when blown and tossed around by the strong winds, we too, for some reason, can end up in a place we had no plans of going to. That is exactly what happened when we left home to go to Pakpattan but ended up […]
Unique extermination
Rasul Gamzatov, I think is the brightest star in the galaxy of the literary world. The writer, in his book My Dagestan, writes that once when he was in Paris, he met a painter who also belonged to Dagestan. They had a lengthy conversation with each other. On his return to Dagestan, he was able […]
The blind leading the blind II
History is a witness to how the literacy rate in England surged when Latin and French were replaced by the English language. The growth rate of literacy, which remained sluggish, moving at snail’s speed, gathered momentum and rocketed with the introduction of English. The other countries of the world had similar experiences. For the British, […]
Punjabi Hindus: forlorn and on the path to extinction I s
Just as a piece of paper knows not where it will land when blown and tossed around by the strong winds, we too, for some reason, can end up in a place we had no plans of going to. That is exactly what happened when we left home to go to Pakpattan but ended up […]