“Successive governments have advised us to forget the past and focus on the future. Put yourself in our shoes for a second. Is it possible to erase the bloody past?”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“I thought all of this will end soon and everything will be normal shortly. But its been thirty years. I'm still waiting for things to get back to normal.”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“In this unending chaos, and with the passage of time since then, the voices of the Kaurs who lived through unimaginable horror and trauma have been silenced. And once I became aware of this silence, I wanted to undo it. I wanted to ensure that the voices of these survivors were heard and their stories remembered.”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
Source: The Poet
“Most of these women were not educated; many had never stepped out of their homes. They responded to the continuum of patriarchy as they had been conditioned to do so - providing thumb impressions to false statements, and in the case of rape survivors, staying silent because they were commanded to to so.”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“Without a male guardian in their lives, and with their mother gone from the house for long hours every day, the children turned wayward and, eventually, dropped out of school.”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“A regular exposure to hurt, humiliation, and social isolation made them sink into a world of their own. Depressed and alone, they began having trouble eating and sleeping as they grew older.”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“After getting drunk and singing loudly,
I lie on the beach with numerous corpses,
With one steed and one bottle of wine,
Who can be as free as me?”
“They are different men here, men I cannot properly understand, whom I envy and despise.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“The strongest trees are those that have weathered the storm.”