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Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict
- The Wheat Fields Still Whisper
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of postcolonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This audiobook makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence - or ignored altogether.
Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement: Baljit Kaur, who armed herself with a video camera to record essential evidence of the conflict; Justice Ajit Singh Bains, who became a beloved “people’s judge”; and Inderjit Singh Jaijee, who returned to Punjab to document abuses even as other elites were fleeing. Together, they are credited with saving countless lives.
Braiding oral histories, personal snapshots, and primary documents recovered from at-risk archives, Kaur shows that when entire conflicts are marginalized, we miss essential stories: stories of faith, feminist action, and the power of citizen-activists.
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- 01-05-23
a totally biased book supporting secessionists
Mallika, true to those writers who love to believe that anti-establishment narrative is right, has given enough tell-tale incidents where her articulation must have been exactly opposite but she chose to malign army, police, government, non-sikhs et al. playing victim card is not a mature way of narrating one's story and unfortunately Mallika too succumbed to this either under pressure from khalistani terrorists or perhaps she herself is one of them. the fact remains that if you destroy law and order by killing police, government officials, non-sikhs with impunity and then take shelter in the holiest of the holi temples then you are desecrating the holi place and people's beliefs and you will be rightly decimated. Having killing thousands of innocent lives while driving agenda of secessionist forces you have no moral right to play victim. first u atone for all those non-sikh killings and then talk of what happened to your ilk. one thing came out very clearly in this book that Indian Army rocks. Once given a direction it does the task meticulously with a singular focus on accomplishing the objective. if you throw obstacles in its path u run the risk, so beware. on the other hand, book's language is simple and impressive except a few wilfully denigrating words here and there. by and large this gives other side of story even though it's factually flawed in many many examples and analyses thereof. Unbiased books on such topics are welcome but not these books filled with false narratives leaving aside the very root cause of army's actions and government's operation Blue Star.
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