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In 2015, the author Amandeep Sandhu began an investigation, meant primarily to resolve the ‘hole in his heart’, his ’emptiness about matters Panjab’. during a period of 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 has 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.
About the Editors
Amandeep Sandhu was born in Rourkela, Odisha. He completed his Master’s in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad. He worked as a journalist and later as a technical writer. His first two books were autobiographical fiction: Sepia Leaves (2008) and Roll of Honour (2012). For the past few years he has written for the media and contributed to anthologies. He now lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Panjab: Journeys through Fault Lines is his first non-fiction book.
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Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines
₹899.00₹810.00Author: Amandeep Sandhu
9789388754569 | Hardcover | pp.559 | 2019 | Westland Books
“More than just a history of the Panjab, this accessible and layered account is…a book filled with love, despair, disappointment and hope”: Urvashi Butalia, author and publisher.
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In 2015, the author Amandeep Sandhu began an investigation, meant primarily to resolve the ‘hole in his heart’, his ’emptiness about matters Panjab’. during a period of 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 has 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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Amandeep Sandhu
9789388754569
Hardcover
559
2019
Westland Books
First
New
India
About the Editors
Amandeep Sandhu was born in Rourkela, Odisha. He completed his Master’s in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad. He worked as a journalist and later as a technical writer. His first two books were autobiographical fiction: Sepia Leaves (2008) and Roll of Honour (2012). For the past few years he has written for the media and contributed to anthologies. He now lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Panjab: Journeys through Fault Lines is his first non-fiction book.
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