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Khooni Vaisakhi: A Poem from the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919 inUrdu Script
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Jallianwala Bagh. 13 April 1919. Twenty-two-year-old Nanak Singh joins the mass of peaceful protestors agitating against the Rowlatt Act. What then turns out to be one of the worst atrocities perpetrated by the British Raj and a turning point in India's independence movement also becomes a life-changing experience for Nanak Singh who survives the massacre unconscious and unnoticed among the hundreds of corpses.After going through the traumatic experience Nanak Singh proceeds to write Khooni Vaisakhi a long poem in Punjabi. The poem was a scathing critique of the British Raj and was banned soon after its publication in May 1920. After sixty long years it was rediscovered and has been translated into English for the first time by the author's grandson Navdeep Suri. Featuring the poem in translation and in original this bilingual book is accompanied by essays from Navdeep Suri Punjabi literature scholar H.S. Bhatia and BBC correspondent Justin Rowlatt. Khooni Vaisakhi is not only a poignant piece of protest literature but also a historical artefact and a resurrected witness to how Sikhs Hindus and Muslims came together to stand up to colonization and oppression in one of India's darkest moments.
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