The Punjab Partition Forum

- Ramanjit Singh Sketch by S.L Parashar, Ambala Refugee Camp 1947-49 Partition has changed us in multitude of ways and has left a permanent and an irreversible mark on the social psyche of the two countries. It stains our land and everyone of our lives. One might ask how it is still changing us? It is changing us because it is forcing us to look at the "other" as different, a lesser human. It is affecting us because it has created a false sense of pride, vanity of our false d

- Ramanjit Singh We were always their pawns, we just never realized it. Sometimes it's a confluence of things that create an impression,...

- Ramanjit Singh A view of Lahore. Photo: Adam Cohn/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The Partition of India was more harmful for Pakistan than it was for India. A country based on a false pretense that "Islam is in danger" and that Muslims cannot live with Hindus, Sikhs and other religious communities in United India has proven to be disastrous for the people of Pakistan. I say this objectively, dispassionately and without malice. Creation of Pakistan was not a Muslim idea, it was Jinn

- Ramanjit Singh The Partition violence did not start in summer of 1947. It had started way earlier in December of 1946 in NWFP and later...

- Ramanjit Singh There are probably only few of us left who are trying to navigate through this hyper nationalist and divided world with...

- Ramanjit Singh In order to understand the enormity of events that had befallen on Punjab in 1947, we need to look at each event in its own context. And more importantly, we need to look at them through the eyes of those individuals who saw those events first hand and described them with specificity. In our research, we came across a reference of a particular diary that was written by Mr. Anokh Singh, who was a District Collector at Ferozepur in 1947. He was in charge of man

- Ramanjit Singh In this remarkable interview by the American TV interviewer Arnold Michaelis, India's Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal...

- Ramanjit Singh Throughout history there are events that change a city's destiny. The fall of Rome is often mentioned as the pivotal...

- Ramanjit Singh Taking on a mission of artfully photographing historic architecture of Punjab, my friend Taqi Husnain has captivated the lost history of the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan. His work is remarkable because it captures every detail of the old temples and gurdwaras that were left behind by the non-Muslims during the Partition. It is also commendable that there are freelance videographers and photojournalists on both sides of Punjab that are painstakingly recording

- Ramanjit Singh Katas Raj temple, Shiva's Tearful Eyes I often wonder what defines a nation. What are the characteristics that defines...