PANJAB – JOURNEYS THROUGH FAULT LINES – Amandeep Sandhu
$170.00
In 2015, Amandeep Sandhu began an investigation that was meant to resolve the ‘hole in his heart, his ’emptiness about matters Panjab’. For three years, he crisscrossed the state and discovered a land that was nothing like the one he had imagined and not like the stories he had heard. Present-day Panjab prides itself on legends of its military and valorous past even as it struggles with daily horrors. The Green Revolution has wreaked ecological havoc in the state, and a decade and a half of militancy have destabilised its economy and governance. Sikhism the state’s eclectic and syncretic religion is in crisis, its gatekeepers brooking no dissent and giving little spiritual guidance. And Panjab has yet to recover from the loss of its other half, now in Pakistan. Underneath it all, though, the old spirit of the land beats away an undercurrent of resistance to power and hegemony that holds the hope that Panjab’s unyielding knots can be untied.
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