Jagdish Kaur

Jagdish Kaur, who was the Principal of a Nursing College in 1984, recounts how the trauma changed her life and defined its choices forever. While she was in Faridkot, her husband witnessed the June Army attack on gurudwara Dukhnivaran Sahib in Patiala and was “mentally tortured” by what he experienced. The couple left for the US, leaving their children behind.

Four years later, they were re-united. But Kaur recognizes that other families were not as fortunate. She holds that the centrality of the Sikh grievance is “ek murder karan wale nu saza…te inna ne taan lakhn muder keete ne”.

(The murderer of one is punished…and yet they have committed hundreds of thousands of murders…”)