The Punjab Partition Forum

Recollections of M. Tufail Uppal, penned by Author Nasim Hassan. My name is Mohammed Tufail Uppal. I was born in Raja Sansi, a town in...

- Ramanjit Singh How does one paint almost a photographic rendering of a place and its people? How does one capture life in a painting with such clarity? If we were to think of an artist who was able to combine all these skills and paint the 19th century India with all its vibrance, it is Edwin Lord Weeks. Born in 1849 in Newton, Massachusetts, Edwin Lord Weeks was an American painter who travelled the world over and painted some of the most beautiful landscapes depicting the

Ramanjit Singh Grief has no voice, Courtesy of S.L. Parasher Gallery http://prajnaparasher.com/SLP/Ambala.html The pain of the victims,...

Ramanjit Singh In this old interview by Lutfullah Khan, the pioneer of Indian cinema Prithviraj Kapoor talks about his life in Samundari (also Samundri), Lyallpur and Peshawar. I have never heard anyone speak so eloquently about their life in pre-partition Punjab and the Frontier as he does in this interview. From 17:55 onwards, Prithviraj Kapoor relives those days. I had to listen to this interview several times and managed to understand most of it. The way he talks, his use

Ramanjit Singh Chatha, Jammu - Site of Muslim massacres in October 1947 As the Punjabi Hindu and Sikh refugees from Sialkot and...

Ramanjit Singh Jhootha Sach, a novel written by Yashpal, one of India's greatest contemporary Hindi language authors, was translated into English by his son Anand with the title This is Not That Dawn. The book is an epic novel about pre-partition Punjab and connects both history and fiction to narrate the tremendous hardships faced by ordinary people escaping violence in Lahore and trying to find their footing in the new post-partition India. The author uses the actual events

Ramanjit Singh At the Ferozepur - Kasur border, December 2018 After independence, India is forgetting that what made India great is its secular ethos that has been part of its DNA since the dawn of history. We as people of India are tolerant of others, consider diversity as our strength. Those who invaded us eventually became part of us. Religion is a personal matter and economic development is the primary goal of the government. And the fact that Indian constitution gives eq

Ramanjit Singh Of all the stories about the partition violence, ones that stand out the most and have a lasting impression are the ones...

Ramanjit Singh Darya Raavi forms a part of the border between India and Pakistan Originating from the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, once part of Punjab Hill States, River Ravi (pronounced as Raavi) enters the present day Punjab from the Madhopur Headworks in Pathankot and then meanders its way south west separating the districts of Narowal and Gurdaspur and then Amritsar and Sheikhupura before entering into the Lahore district. Over the centuries, songs have been writt

- Ramanjit Singh Listening to the Partition stories, the mind wanders into a distant time and tries to grapple with the enormity of human...