Yaar mar gaye je mere is aas te, ke main unna de dukhde da banawanga geet, je main chhup hi reha,.....

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Balwant Singh, a friend of Harpinder, took charge of the family after his death. Kamaldeep showed me the letters Balwant wrote from jail – including a verse in Punjabi by Surjeet Pattar that police found in Beant Singh’s car after his assassination: Yaar mar gaye je mere is aas te, ke main unna de dukhde da banawanga geet, je main chhup hi reha, je main kuch na keha, ban ke roohan, sadaa raunde rahenge vo (friends died hoping I would make songs of their grieving/ If I too fail to speak up, their spirits will forever wander restlessly mourning their loss.) Kamaldeep’s own sense of loss comes from just one thing: the leaders of the community for whom her brothers sacrificed their lives thought nothing of ditching her.

Pyari Kaur, the 80-year-old mother of Satwant Singh – the assassin of Indira Gandhi – showed me his photos and kirpaan (dagger that the Sikh faithful are instructed to carry.) After Satwant’s execution the family holds the room in which these are kept to be sacred. The mother, brother, sister-in-law and nephews of Satwant Singh proudly narrated stories in which he was portrayed as courageous and kindhearted. His was an epic sacrifice for the community, they repeated, and spoke of how, after the incarcerated Satwant declined to marry his fiancée Bibi Surinder Kaur, she “married” his photo and kirpaan and remained in the house till she died of cancer.

Satwant’s nephew, 16-year-old Vikram, proudly showed us the bullets that were taken out of his body after surgery. I asked this 11th standard student whether he had ever faced humiliation in school on account of his uncle’s deeds. His answer was startling: “When my school mates learnt that Satwant Singh was my uncle they became even keener to befriend me and visit my house. They would tell me that my uncle did something truly great.”

During the five days that we toured Punjab, logging over 1,500 km, we found telltale signs of police barbarism on scores of survivors. And it is significant that the old resentment against the police and the administration has not died. For instance my escort Narayan Singh, an accused in the Budail jailbreak and now on parole, was at pains to explain to me that people took up arms only when they were denied social justice.

This was also the only time that the normally composed Narayan Singh lost his cool; on which note, incidentally, we parted. He also made it clear that he had scant faith in journalists. “We have faced so much injustice. There is so much pain in our lives. But I know you will only write that we are dangerous for the country,” this most helpful of escorts shouted, banging the car door.


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