Why We Need to Believe in the Myth of Malerkotla
"Dushman marey tey khushee na karey, sajnaa wee mar janaa,
Deegar tey din gayaa Mohammad, Oorak noon doob jana."
– Saif-ul-Malook
The names of perpetrators and victims keep changing, but the situation remains the same as we continue to regress from one communal riot to another: from Muzaffarnagar (2013) to Asansol (2018).
In times of Muslims fearing Hindus and Hindus fearing Muslims, Pippa Virdee’s latest offering “From The Ashes of 1947 – Reimagining Punjab” discloses the ‘details of the blessing of…