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OUTSIDE SOMEWHERE, A LAMP BURNS
As the saying goes, people living in Punjab undergo daily challenges each day. A mix of happiness and sorrows is what a life takes with it. This novel talks about scenario before the Indo-Pak separation and then the painful relocation of people across the border. People and life started settling down and then when things started getting a little better, Punjab got hit by the Nirankari kaand in Amritsar in the year 1978, which again disrupted peace in Punjab. It took a long time for Punjab to restore normalcy. Little did Punjab get respite that 1984 witnessed operation Blue Star which hurt the very soul of Punjab and Punjabis across the world. The rage and turmoil destroyed Punjab and killed many innocents. Humanity cried, old eyes got tired and despaired; many people migrated to Delhi in a hope of a new life and as an escape to finally become victim of riots following the assassination of the then Prime Minister. The pain and sufferings by the people of Punjab right from the days of partition till their pursuit of settlement has been expressed by the writer in this novel.
THE LOST FOOTPRINTS
All religions are respected and all preach the same values around humanity and goodness; none is superior to another. The lost footprints tells the story of a young UK-born Sikh girl who falls in love with a Pakistani boy. The boy takes her to Pakistan with a promise to marry her there and stay within his community and then return to UK as they both are UK-born. The boy is then introduced with a local girl there in Pakistan by his family. That girl comes from a rich and related Pakistani family, and her beauty appeals to the boy. He falls for her. He changes his mind. He then plays foul with his girlfriend from UK and gets her arrested for drug trafficking. The girl undergoes a lot of trauma and abuse in the jail, and is finally forced into high-profile prostitution where she suffers, still facing the adversities for 9 months. A good-hearted man from Pakistan comes to rescue her from that miserable life and gets her back to UK. That is why we believe that religions are all good but the followers or community persons may be good or bad.
THE STRUGGLE FOR HONOUR
This novel talks about the wounds and trauma suffered by the people of Punjab from 1984 to 1995. Many a innocent people were killed by either militants or by police under fake encounters. The author, Sh. Shivcharan Jaggi Kussa ji, took 1 year 9 months to write his narrations of self witnessed events which are so bold and vivid that nobody dared to publish it first. Finally, it got published in the year 1999 and was one of its own kind in the history of Punjabi literature, which made Shivcharan Kussa famous overnight. Nobody dared to write on such religiously and politically sensitive matters. Once published, it got placed in all the leading newspapers worldwide as a series. 19 editions have been published by now. The writer hopes and prays for peace everywhere.
Searches In Sikhism
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Legacies of the Homeland
This book is not intended to provide a list of the 100 ‘best’ books ever written and published by Punjabi authors. Given the sheer range of books written by Punjabi authors and the unpredictability of individual taste, any such definitive list is quite impossible. Secondly, the choice has been restricted to books that were written by them either in Punjabi, Hindi or Urdu but have been translated into English. Thus, personal choice restricted by availability has dictated this selection. The choice of books includes autobiographies, novels, short stories, poems, and plays. Research books, religious books, and books written originally in English have not been included. From the Introduction...
Satwant Kaur
About a helpless Sikh girl kidnapped by Muslim invaders in 18th century.
The Sikhs
Five hundred years ago, Guru Nanak founded the Sikh faith in India. The Sikhs defied the caste system; rejected the authority of Hindu priests; forbade magic and idolatry; and promoted the equality of men and women -- beliefs that incurred the wrath of both Hindus and Muslims. In the centuries that followed, three of Nanak's nine successors met violent ends, and his people continued to battle hostile regimes. The conflict has raged into our own time: in 1984 the Golden Temple of Amritsar -- the holy shrine of the Sikhs--was destroyed by the Indian Army. In retaliation, Sikh bodyguards assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Now, Patwant Singh gives us the compelling story of the Sikhs -- ...
Worshipping False Gods
Over the last couple of decades, B.R. Ambedkar has come to be idolized as no other political leader has. His statue is one of the largest in the Parliament complex. Political parties have reaped rich electoral dividends riding on his name. A decades-old cartoon of him in a textbook rocked Parliament for days recently, causing parties across the political spectrum to run for cover and call for the withdrawal of the 'offending' cartoon. In Worshipping False Gods, Arun Shourie employs his scholarly rigour to cast a critical look at the legend of Ambedkar. With his distinctive eye for detail, Shourie delves into archival records to ask pertinent questions: Did Ambedkar coordinate his opposition to the freedom struggle with the British? How does his approach to social change contrast with that of Mahatma Gandhi's? Did the Constitution spring from him or did it grow as a dynamic living organism? Passionately argued and based on a mountain of facts that it presents, Worshipping False Gods compels us to go behind the myths on which discourse is built in India today.
A Life Incomplete
British agitations, are thoughts of going home to his wife. When he returns, he finds out that his wife has died, leaving behind their infant child. As Kuldeep's world collapses around him, he negotiates the divergent pulls exerted by people around him: a holy man who advocates renunciation; his childhood friend Saroj, who has always loved him; and the tempestuous Prakash who hides an unsavoury past. Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author Nanak Singh draws on personal experiences to create this compelling portrait of Punjab in the 1920s. Originally published in Punjabi in 1940, Adh Kidhiya Phool is an intense meditation on the choices people make and the consequences these may have.
Japji, a Way to God Realisation
Study, with text of Japji, Sikh hymns by Guru Nanak, 1469-1538, 1st Guru of the Sikhs.
