‘Ambarsar.’ That’s how I used to hear it as a child. The pronunciation soft and flowing, echoing its meaning of lilting water: a place that was both temporal and divine, both real and rather magical. The name means “Pool of the nectar, of immortality.” For most Punjabis, particularly Sikhs, Ambarsar, or Amritsar as it’s more […]
Jallianwala Bhag massacre
Udham Singh: The Lonely Revolutionary
On 31st July 1940, Udham Singh was hanged at Pentonville Prison, in London. On 29th July 2017, I went to see the poignant and heart-breaking documentary about the partition ‘Rabba Hun Ki Kariye – Thus Departed Our Neighbours.’ In one of its early scenes letters are being read, from a prisoner who was […]