Women in 1984

Event Details

The sikh student sangat of UC Berkeley would like to invite you to a seminar on 'Women in 1984' on Saturday, November 21st from 1-4 PM on the Berkeley campus led by Dr. Cynthia Mahmood, Navkiran Kaur Khalra, and Jasmine Kaur Marwaha. The narratives of these three women are linked to the struggle of the post 1984-period. Cynthia Mahmood's work deals directly with the issue of militancy and Dr. Mahmood will discuss the violence in Punjab from the macro lens of India as a democracy. The Khalra family's narratives is inherently linked to the states backlash against movements desiring human rights and autonomy. Navkiran Kaur will speak of her own experiences as the daughter of Jaswant Singh Khalra and the heritage of his vision. The struggle of Ensaaf is thereafter a movement towards fufilling these mandates for justice. Jasmine Kaur Marwaha, human rights lawyer for Ensaaf, will be discussing the the right to reparations for victims of the November 1984 pogroms, as well as victims of the Punjab counterinsurgency, from a gendered perspective. Each of these women present a myriad of perspectives that allow for the consideration of an often glossed over perception of 1984.