Faiz said, ‘Bol zubaan ab teri hai …’ (Speak, the tongue is yours.) Roll of Honour review from the site where it all happened – Punjab.
‘The account feels intensely personal with a raw visceral quality.’
Tags: 1984, Khalistan, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, Punjab, riots, school
Vinod Joseph, writer of ‘When The Snow Melts’ reviews the book.
‘Where ‘Roll of Honour’ scores is its excellent depiction of the heartache brought about by Operation Blue Star and the subsequent assassination and riots, the break-down of trust between the Hindu and Sikh communities and the questions of loyalty it created for the Sikh community in India.’
Tags: 1984, Khalistan, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, Punjab, riots, school
Sikhchic.com, a news central, the Sikh Canadian website run by T Sher Singh reviews Roll of Honour. Read here.
Tags: 1984, Khalistan, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, Punjab, riots, school
Rosalia Scalia, who is writing her novel on 1984 and has already written a number of excellent short stories around Sikh and other themes, interviews me for the Sikh Canadian website Sikhchic.com. Read here.
Tags: 1984, Khalistan, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, Punjab, riots, school
Tags: 1984, Khalistan, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, Punjab, riots, school
I met Saumya at the reading at Jamia Milia Islamia. All the students, the youth, were so smart and engaging and knew much more than I did when I was their age, in a similar course. I am glad they are reading Roll of Honour. Saumya went ahead and reviewed the book, read on.
Tags: 1984, Khalistan, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, Punjab, riots, school
Shri Rajesh Sharma teaches English at Punjabi University, Patiala. He had read Sepia Leaves last year and expressed the desire to follow my writing. Here are his views, read on.
Tags: 1984, Khalistan, military school, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, Punjab, riots
‘We write to heal, the healing process never started in Punjab.’ Read on here.
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Anuradha Goyal was herself growing up in Punjab in the 80s. In her review she says:
She says: ‘Author beautifully brings out the impact of external and internal violence in the life of a teenager in mid 1980s. It is an important piece of literature for a turbulent phase of Punjab written with an intensity that takes you back to the time.’
Please read her review.
Tags: 1984, military school, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, riots, sodomy
A short review by Manjula Narayan in the Hindustan Times today (the third entry on the page):
‘Some of the scenes, especially those that deal with the depravity of school boys and their savagery are at once shocking and absorbing. Roll of Honour places much of its action in a particularly bloody time in the nation’s recent history – one that’s been largely ignored in Indian English fiction until now. This novel is doubly powerful as a result.’
For more read.
Tags: 1984, military school, Mrs. Gandhi assasination, Operation Bluestar, riots, sodomy