The Punjab Partition Forum

And I sit here thousands of miles away thinking about Punjab Parts of my memory fade, the parts when I was closer to Punjab It is asking me to come back Back into its fold Back into its warm embrace The idea of going back is getting stronger by the day I belong to that land, to its people, to its history Where ever I go, somehow the past beckons The past tells me not to forget my identity, my self-worth I somehow represent it Where ever I go, it goes with me Its history weave

Ramanjit Singh How India Kept Lahore's Lights On After Partition In the fever of 1947, in the meeting rooms of Delhi, and London where Pakistan was argued into existence, the men who drew the new world spoke of sovereignty, of religion, of homeland. What they did not speak of, what perhaps they could not bring themselves to fully reckon with, were the wires. The roads. The railways. The canals that crossed every border they proposed. The Muslim League, Jinnah, and the archite

By Ramanjit Singh In the sweltering heat of the July 1947, four individuals representing the Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities under the directions of Sir Cyril Radcliffe deliberated on how to separate a living geography of Punjab. The officials representing the Muslims put forward their proposal on why the Pakistan boundary needs to pushed further east due to different reasons, all justifiable and reasonable in their eyes. The same was true for the Hindu and Sikh representa