The Punjab Partition Forum

Ramanjit Singh When it comes to who contributed the most to the Indian cinema, I believe that the pre-Partition generation of Punjab had...

Ramanjit Singh Couple of years ago, I wrote about how the month of August to most Punjabis brings back old memories of pain and...

Ramanjit Singh San Francisco Bay Area artist Tanya Momi has painted 15 paintings depicting both the horror and hope of Partition. I always wanted to write about Sargodha. Hadali, a village in Sargodha district, was the birthplace of India's most prolific writer and historian Sardar Khushwant Singh. Sargodha also brings back memories of some of the prominent personalities we studied in our history books, such as Daya Ram Sahni, the Indian archeologist who supervised the very f

Ramanjit Singh Visiting India and sitting at a Starbucks in Green City Square Bathinda, Punjab, I had an odd thought about how far would...

By Ramanjit Singh In the 19th century, several British artists went to India to make a series of illustrations of the country, its people...

By Ramanjit Singh After seven decades, there are very few amongst us who experienced the madness of the Partition of India. Our parents and grandparents have passed those awful stories to us. The future generations carry those stories, those anecdotes, as if they are family heirlooms, to be cherished, to be protected, to be preserved forever. These memories form the fabric of our sub-conscious, they help us to interpret those black and white photographs, those old faces. What

- Ramanjit Singh Painting of Partition victims by Satish Gujral. The border between the two has become permanent. The border between the two is pulling us apart and the gulf is ever widening. The border is a permanent fissure that cannot be bridged. We are so close yet we see each other from afar. The part of India that we lost cannot become part of us anymore. The people have become different. They look at us differently and we look at them differently. I have, over the year

- Ramanjit Singh If we hypothesize a scenario where the Partition of India had not taken place, then what would have been a possible...

- Ramanjit Singh How the border between India and Pakistan was drawn in Punjab remains one of the most interesting subject for research in the entire Partition saga. I have documented the reasoning behind the Radcliffe Award and how the notional boundary, first outlined in June 1947, was markedly changed when the final boundary was announced on August 17th, 1947 (after a delay of two days). Notional Punjab Boundary formulated as of June 1947 exposes Amritsar from all three s

- Ramanjit Singh A digitized collection of historical books on Punjab is available in the Panjab Digital Library (based in Chandigarh,...