Dear Friends,
my book Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines is now out in bookstores. Those of you who have pre-ordered copies will start getting them now. Thank you!
I feel humbled that two people who I have admired and respected over years had this to say about the book which is part-reportage, part-memoir and part-contextual history of Panjab.
From the back cover:
More than just a history of the Panjab, this accessible and layered account is also a journey of self-discovery, a return to the author’s roots which questions, simultaneously, the politics and geography of rootedness, a homecoming that questions the idea of home. It’s a book filled with love, despair, disappointment and hope.
~ Urvashi Butalia, Author and Publisher, Zubaan
Panjab post-militancy is in crisis. Amandeep Sandhu has spent time travelling through the state, observing and talking to people. He interweaves this reportage with the understanding he possesses both as an insider and outsider to Panjab. The result is a clear-headed insight into the reasons for its decline. There is nothing I have read that better explains the interconnected decay of the institutions of the state and the Sikh religion.
~ Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor, Caravan
Indian readers can pre-order copies here: Amazon.in
Readers abroad can buy copies here: Amazon.com
Please Bless! Buy and discuss. The intent of the book is present Panjab as post conflict zone and open conversations so we can all begin to heal.
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Dear Friends,
yesterday, October 26, 2019, Business Standard came up with its top picks books. Panjab: Journeys Through fault Lines was mentioned.
Please see mention here:
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Dear friends,
yesterday, October 26, 2019 Hindustan Times came out with its most interesting books for the week and Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines was among them.
Please see mention here …
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Dear Friends,
Sohan S Koonar’s debut novel Paper Lions presents a ‘very detailed and greatly nuanced panoramic view from the ground of the decades which saw the end of a colonial era and the beginning of the modern Indian nation state.’
Please read my review here …
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Dear Friends,
As my upcoming book Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines approaches release date October 30, 2019, I present to you a recording of a session at the Hindu Lit for Life, 2017.
In 2017, on the eve of Panjab assembly elections, Prasanna Ramaswamy invited me to the Hindu Lit for Life to speak about my journeys in Panjab. I was touched by Prasanna’s faith in me.
The brilliant Prema Revathi and I had a conversation on stage where she asked me questions and linked the concerns I was raising about Panjab with faraway Tamil Nadu. If I myself may say so, it was one of the best public conversations I have had and the credit for it goes to Revathi.
I hope you listen to it…
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Dear Friends,
the next day, Sunday, October 21, 2019, Panjab Today also published the full extract of my book Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines. This version carried hitherto less seen but very evocative pictures from the first day the Darbar Sahib was opened to public after Operation Blue Star, 1984. All pictures by Satpal Danish.
Please read extract here …
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Dear Friends,
on Saturday, October 20, 2019, the Mint newspaper published a slightly edited version of the Preface of my upcoming book Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines.
Please read the extract here …
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Dear friends,
the book ‘Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines’ has arrived.
In a virtual world, I get to see pictures from my publishers Westland office and from friends.
Me, the mother, is now waiting to hold the baby. 
In India, you can pre-order the book here …
Abroad, you can pre-order the book here …
Please bless! Buy! Hope the book opens conversations …
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October 2, 2019 was the 58th day of the Kashmir lock-down and the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Some of us who are questioning the government – which on the one hand claims Kashmir is ‘normal’ and on the other hand keeps Kashmir’s people deprived of food, medicines, essentials, access to modes of communication – decided to undertake a 12 hour Cyber Satyagrah. It was to experience a lock-down and write the experience.
Please read my note here …
Tags: 150th birth anniversary, Cyber Satyagrah, Kashmir lock-down, Mahatma Gandhi, October 2
A few days back, in Canada, famous Panjabi singer spoke about the need for a single language in the country. I commented on his statement on my social media. The Tribune found it fit to quote.
Please read more here …
Tags: Gurdas Maan, Hindi, One Nation One Language, Panjabi