Mahanjot Sodhi
“This particular year, has for some reason…been more emotional than any other year,” shares Mahanjot Sodhi, one of the many Childhood Witnesses of 1984 who have shared their memories with the #1984LivingHistoryProject.
Sodhi recounts killing of extended family members in Kanpur in November 1984. “We actually heard for the first time that somebody could actually burn with a tire… and it was the same year…just after a few months of June, this happens!”
A 13-year-old in 1984, he remembers the childish excitement of seeing the Army in May, “to my little mind… all I could comprehend was, maybe there is going to be a war with Pakistan… little realizing, this was going to be a war on our religion.” He recounts visiting Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, soon after the attack and remembers how he began understanding command responsibility for the attack after seeing a message written on one of the walls in someone’s blood: “they hadn’t even been able to finish the thought… but that is something I can never forget.”
In this account from the heart, Sodhi illustrates: “To this particular moment, I have an indelible mark on my soul because of the events of 1984.”
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