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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Here is my short review of Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s excellent multi-generational epic on Panjab: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns.
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The Quint recently published my Facebook comment on how the blockage in Kashmir reminds us of 1984, Operation Blue Star.
“As Kashmir is cordoned off, no Internet, no landline, no news coming in and out, I am reminded of a similar clampdown on Panjab summer of 1984 – Operation Blue Star. A wound on the nation’s conscience that has still not healed. Then we had 1990 Kashmir and now. We have learnt nothing. As a nation and as Indians, we have all failed Kashmir”.
Please read more here …
Thanks to friend Suneetha Balakrishnan, I found this article on Scroll.in by Gayathri Prabhu. It is a lovely list of memoirs and distinguishes them from autobiographies. It mentions Sepia Leaves glowingly.
Please read here ….
Whatever happens in India in the 2019 elections, an unlikely constituency – Khadoor Sahib – is slated to become the cynosure of Panjab. In Khadoor Sahib a democratic electoral process has pitted two radically different Sikh ideologies against each other.
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Book: Stillborn Season
Author: Radhika Oberoi
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Most of what has been written about the anti-Sikh pogrom over the last 35 years is either broad-brushstroke rage and rhetoric, pedantic information, or literal reportage. Oberoi breaks this mould by making Amrit a journalist seeking human stories beyond the clichés. Through her search, Oberoi takes a fresh and intimate look at the violence. The novel proves that fiction can do what non-fiction cannot — tell a thousand untold stories in a way that makes the violence more real, and so indict it more sharply.
Please read more here …
Book: The Rainbow Acres
Author: Simrita Dhir
Publisher: Om Books
The well-structured, quick read novel The Rainbow Acres by Simrita Dhir sketches the era when gold was discovered in California and depicts the lives and journeys of a man and a woman from their faraway native lands on two ends of the world to the West Coast of the United States. Dhir alternates the chapters between Kishan Singh and Sophia Morales, from Noor Mahal in Panjab and Acapulco, later Guadalajara and then the village Bahia de Kino in Mexico, to parallel how people are marginalized – either through ravages of nature or political turmoil –and how they become migrants seeking refuge in alien lands.
Please read more here ….