Panjab's Khalistan destiny

A near constant throughout the book is references to Punjab's militancy days, the Khalistan movement and its protagonist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

Panjab: Journeys Through Faultlines | Author: Amandeep Sandhu | Publisher: Westland Books | Price: Rs 899

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Wise men say never trust an Indian to write the story of India. An outsider, the man who doesn’t belong, bereft of tendentiousness, partisanship and pre-conceptions is the one to be trusted to chronicle histories of civilisations without infecting it with distortions of a jaundiced mind. Amandeep Sandhu could well have been that man. As he himself says, “Unlike people born in Panjab who have a direct connection with, and hence a memory of the land, I have no liminal or tangible marker