[PHOTOS] Amardeep Singh Photographer gives a recount of the events of 1984 with his perspective followed by his stunning photography. "May the future generations continue to reflect and talk about history as means of increasing love across communities and build on the ideals of value."
This is the projects most recent video which is a compilation of testimonies. It paints a picture of the sequence of events using the voices of those who saw it themselves.
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.
Brajesh Samarth, a lecturer of Hindi at Stanford, has recently taken on the challenge of creating a documentary about the Sikh diaspora and the 1984 anti-Sikh massacre. The Daily got a chance to speak with Samarth about the history behind the documentary and the challenging journey so far.
Ceres Mayor Chris Vierra presented a proclamation on Monday evening remembering the 1984 Sikh genocide. The proclamation also promoted religious liberty.
I realized that passing this Sikh genocide resolution on university campuses would be the best place to start. Colleges are intellectual playgrounds where ignorance is either fueled or destroyed.
A sense of home does not leave us when we move away from a region or country. It occupies a place in our bodies that preserves what is good in the world...
As I began to sing I watched as his head bent down and soon his eyes were tearing. His pain was greater than I could imagine, being the Harimandir the place where his love and devotion to Guru Ram Das...
The resolution passed with a 13-0-0 vote and will establish the month of November at UCR as Sikh Awareness month and is dedicated to the remembrance of the genocide.
In an unprecedented move, the California State Assembly unanimously passed a resolution April 16 declaring that the Indian government was complicit in the murders of more than 3,000 Sikhs in the November 1984 riots...
[VIDEO] Mayor Silva, "I want to thank you so much from the bottom on my heart... we thank you so much for being a VERY important part of our Stockton community."
Swarnjit Singh from Sikh Sewak Society International wrote a letter to United States Senator Christopher Murphy regarding the 1984 Sikh genocide and shortly after he received a response back
Describing the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 as "genocide", Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said several persons who had a "role" in the carnage are yet to be punished.
It has been 30 years, but the widows of Tilak Vihar still tear up each time they recall the horrors of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Everyone in this West Delhi locality has a story of loss to share.
“He was one of those rare people who dared to protect Sikhs by taking them into their refuge when they were being hounded by the goons with the help of the police,” Phoolka told the Straight over the phone from New Delhi.
Owen said her research into the Sikh belief system "really touched my heart", with its teaching of equality across races, genders and class. With their shared history of suffering from prejudice...
I won’t pretend to ever truly understand what people went through. But this project is helping me catch a glimpse of what life was like there, while also bridging the generation gap between the technology-savvy young...
Sikh survivors of the massacres are expected to attend Saturday's ceremony. The ceremony will include ringing of the city's Freedom Bell. "We will also ring it one time for John F. Kennedy," Khalsa said, "because he was a reformer, too."
If we update the language we use to describe the anti-Sikh violence, maybe we could then finally begin a proper discussion. Acknowledging the malicious intent underlying the massacres is the first step towards reconciliation.
Sach Productions commemorates 30 years of the anti-Sikh, government sponsored massacre of 1984 with the DVD release of it's award winning film, The Widow Colony directed by Harpreet Kaur.
[VIDEO] The city of Harvey Illinois is the first to make such a resolution. It was passed with this prayer: "Merciful God protect us from the violations of religious and human violations. The survivors, we want to view them as children of fire."
Against the government figures of some 3,000 deaths, Sikh groups have claimed “on the basis of new evidence” that 35,000 Sikhs had died in the riots. The petition, which was supported by 10 lakh signatures from Sikhs...
In what many in the Congress see as an "insult", there was no one from the central government at Indira Gandhi's memorial. Modi said, "...the attack was not on a particular community but on the entire nation."
[VIDEO] The living history project was born out of the belief that every Sikh alive in 1984 has a story to tell. These stories together tell a larger story. Not all consistent, not all in line with the prevalent narrative. All the more reason to spend this month learning and re-learning.
The AAP government had on February 06 recommended to probe the anti-Sikh riots with in one year. Kejriwal recently posted on Twitter: “Compensation for 1984 riots victims is a good step. But it is important they get justice. AAP government announced SIT. Government should notify it now.”
