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- Jun 15, 2020
- 3 min
On the other side of Raavi
Ramanjit Singh Originating from the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, once part of Punjab Hill States, River Ravi (pronounced as...
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- May 8, 2020
- 3 min
Door to Door
- Ramanjit Singh Listening to the Partition stories, the mind wanders into a distant time and tries to grapple with the enormity of human...
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- Apr 11, 2020
- 1 min
Peering Soul
Following the end of the British rule in 1947, Sikh community abandoned their homes, leaving behind numerous spiritual sites across...
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- Feb 4, 2020
- 5 min
Project Dastaan
Project Dastaan is a peace project that reconnects refugees of the 1947 Partition to their ancestral homes and communities, communicating...
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- Feb 1, 2020
- 4 min
In Search Of Home
- Ramanjit Singh As Hindu and Sikh refugees started pouring into East Punjab, the newly established East Punjab Assembly in Shimla began...
Forum Post
- Dec 31, 2019
- 5 min
Jhelum
Ramanjit Singh There's something about Jhelum, its people, its soil that has produced extra ordinary men throughout history. In the...
Ramanjit Singh
- Nov 9, 2019
- 1 min
Kartarpur
Today, after 72 years since Partition, the Sikhs from Punjab can visit the beautiful Kartarpur Gurdwara Sahib. The importance of this...
Ramanjit Singh
- Nov 2, 2019
- 2 min
There's No One Left Of Our Kind
- Ramanjit Singh In his autobiography Punjabi Century 1857-1947 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1961), the late scholar...
Ramanjit SIngh
- Oct 13, 2019
- 2 min
Patiala and Kapurthala, August - September 1947
- Ramanjit Singh The violence in August and September escalated to a scale which no longer can be described as religious riots between...
Ramanjit Singh
- Sep 8, 2019
- 16 min
The Rape of Rawalpindi
- By Ramanjit Singh Partition stories often show the ugliness of humanity, some stories overburden the reader with explanation, but...