The Punjab Partition Forum

- Ramanjit Singh Sometimes we don't want to heal because the pain is the last connection to what we have lost. What is it about this month that makes us look back at our past in anguish. Its emotional dissonance leaves us with a heavy heart. We look at August with a sense of foreboding, we long for its passage, each day of this month reminds us of those we have lost. Each day of this month is marked by tragedy, our failure as humans. Each day reminds us of the treachery that

Ramanjit Singh Ask a Jatt where he is from and he will answer you with two names. He will name the village, and then he will name the got / gotra (lineage) — the ethnicity. Both matter, but the ethnicity matters more. A Sandhu of Amritsar and a Sandhu of Sheikhupura share the same last name and same lineage and yet in 1947, on both sides of a line neither of them drew, they saw themselves torn apart by religious ideology that overshadowed their common ancestry. Their ethnicit

Soon we will be celebrating 80 years of India's independence. Our eternal August that reminds us of the tragedy of Partition and also the birth of a new nation. We have come a long way from that year. The process of how the country was divided, the individuals who were making decisions on our behalf, the circumstances and the consequences of that fateful year is still haunting us after all these years. We debate on who said what and who did what. We debate whether we could ha

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