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 …
Tags: Amandeep Sandhu, Amazon, Mint, Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines, Westland
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 …
Tags: Amandeep Sandhu, Amazon, Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines, Westland
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
Here is my short review of Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s excellent multi-generational epic on Panjab: The Radiance of a Thousand Suns.
Please read more here …
Tags: epic, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Multi-generation, Panjab, The Radiance of a Thousand Suns
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 …
Tags: Article 35A, Article 370, blockade, Kashmir, Operation Blue Star
My musings in the wake of how some people are parties are behaving over abrogation of Article 35A and 370 in Kashmir.
Please read here …
My brief musings on what seems to me the final frontier of democracy.
Please read here …
Tags: Assembly, democracy, minutes, Vidhan Souda
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 ….
Tags: autobiography, Gayathri Prabhu, indian, memoir, Sepia Leaves
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.
Please read more here …
Tags: Bibi Paramjeet Kaur Khalra, extra-judicial killings Punjab, Jaswant Singh Khalra, Khadoor Sahib, Lok Sabha 2019