Kuldip Singh Makker

“I pricked my finger with a knife, and with the blood coming out, I wrote on a new notebook, Ik Ong Kaar [There is but the One Creator]…” recounts Kuldip Singh Makker who in June 1984 was a young structural engineer and father coming home from work in Chicago, when he heard the news that the Indian Army had attacked the Sikh “temple”.

Mr. Makker quickly involved himself in marches and protests. He remembers the large protest gathering in New York in 1985 as well as activism in his own home state of Illinois. He sought to inform Americans of the true identity and grievances of the Sikhs.

He still has the notebook page with the Ik Ong Kaar writing.

“Even last night, in my dreams, I reached Amritsar, trying to see, what was damaged, how it will be repaired… I feel Indira Gandhi did not know the might of the Sikhs. Sikh have so much power, in themselves…!”