The events lasted just over a decade. Sikhs were arrested and held without trial or killed in fake encounters by the army and the police.
It's almost two years ago, on 16 January, 2015, when 83-year-old Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa started his hunger strike
A small part of me also wonders about the anonymous Brahmgianis in the world, the anonymous sewadars...
You must remember that you are a lethal combination of brains and conscience in a world where genocide denial is a growing norm.
Calling it a "step in the right direction", Sikh-Americans here have welcomed the Indian government's decision of removing the names of 225 Sikhs from a blacklist.
We ask for hope and strength, for remembrance and resilience, for commitments and promises to memorialize that dark dawn which hatched upon those pilgrims a crimson cacophony of military bombardments thirty years ago.
But where are you? The one who witnesses, then enlarges the world What happened to you ‘the dominant one’? What happened to melodies of the original Asad?
"The biggest way I am certain this has caught the attention of the Western world is through the amount of media coverage; articles on the BBC, Independent, Vice Magazine, Washington Post - these are major news outlets..."
The Disappeared. This is the name for so many young men in insurgencies around the world picked up by the police and never heard of again.
The process of being listened to in interviews re-members the dis-membered “self” that was severed from an experience during the moment of trauma. By speaking their histories, Sikhs are speaking themselves back into wholeness.