The Disappeared. This is the name for so many young men in insurgencies around the world picked up by the police and never heard of again.
The process of being listened to in interviews re-members the dis-membered “self” that was severed from an experience during the moment of trauma. By speaking their histories, Sikhs are speaking themselves back into wholeness.
A sense of home does not leave us when we move away from a region or country. It occupies a place in our bodies that preserves what is good in the world...
[VIDEO] Then the 6th Nanak came and built the Akal Takht so the infinite rulership can be established in the site of HariMandir, the temple of God, so things can be ruled in peace.
From Guru Arjun to modern times Sikhs show determination and optimism.
[VIDEOS] Many congratulations and thanks to Living History for taking on this needed project. This Project seeks to build awareness of state-sponsored human rights violations, suppression of information & social trauma. All are invited to submit a film to the project. The more media, the more awareness.
Guru Shabad Singh Khalsa witnessed the build up of events in 1984 when he stayed in Amritsar during those chaotic months to study Sikhi. After June 1984 he wrote this song (lyrics and music by himself) as an ode to the Akal Takhat.
As I began to sing I watched as his head bent down and soon his eyes were tearing. His pain was greater than I could imagine, being the Harimandir the place where his love and devotion to Guru Ram Das...
he 73-minute documentary, directed by Harpreet Kaur, is a stirring account of the survivors of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. “I will never forget the priceless gift these women have given me. They took me in their arms..."
[VIDEO] Must see video. This film is a moving fictionalization of true events that happened near Delhi.