Ramanjit Singh We celebrated our 80th anniversary of India's independence. Our 80th anniversary since the partition, the partition of the country, the partition of Punjab, the partition of an ancient land, its history and its future. The partition is seared in our maps, in our hearts and in our minds. The painful stories are passed down to the next generations as family heirlooms, so that they never forget or forgive how bad the other side was and still is. The continuation of partition has...

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 ethnicity binds them...