Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Pu..., Mallika Kaur
Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Pu..., Mallika Kaur
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Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict
The Wheat Fields Still Whisper

Author: Mallika Kaur

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 17 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/30/2021


Synopsis

Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of postcolonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This audiobook makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence—or ignored altogether.Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement: Baljit Kaur, who armed herself with a video camera to record essential evidence of the conflict; Justice Ajit Singh Bains, who became a beloved “people’s judge”; and Inderjit Singh Jaijee, who returned to Punjab to document abuses even as other elites were fleeing. Together, they are credited with saving countless lives.Braiding oral histories, personal snapshots, and primary documents recovered from at-risk archives, Kaur shows that when entire conflicts are marginalized, we miss essential stories: stories of faith, feminist action, and the power of citizen-activists.

About Mallika Kaur

Mallika Kaur is a lawyer and writer who focuses on human rights, with a specialization in gender and minority issues. She received her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, and her Juris Doctorate from the UC Berkeley School of Law, where she currently teaches.

About Soneela Nankani

Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Geena on December 29, 2023

4/5 Kaur's work in this book had clarified a lot of historic events I was not originally privy to. As a Sikh we're taught to question and learn and that's what I feel like Kaur does in her work. She learns and conveys to the reader about the human rights abuses and genocide committed by the Indian st......more

Goodreads review by Jack on May 01, 2021

Picked this book up awhile ago but only got around to reading it today. Although quite a bit of it was absolutely gut wrenching, I cannot recommend it enough to anyone interested in understanding the violence that gripped Punjab from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. I really appreciated how rather than f......more

Goodreads review by Mary on June 04, 2022

Mallika Kaur is a gifted story teller who captures the complexities of the Punjab conflict. She records the accounts of those directly involved in the deadliest decade of the conflict and shares them with the outside world. This story is one of citizen activism in the face of oppression. Ms Kaur tel......more

Goodreads review by Kanika on September 15, 2020

The Wheat Fields Still Whispers - Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict by Mallika Kaur is a book that looks at what it was like to live in Punjab in those days (Unna din) as they are referred to by people in Punjab. The author takes us backward from the present day to the fateful day of......more

Goodreads review by Yatin on April 16, 2023

Well this is one of the books I was excited to read as the topic is talked about in news a lot. My disappointment with the book is related to the storytelling where the author talks about one side, without giving any information to what the other side of the story is. Some examples of things which m......more


Quotes

“There are many people who talk, but not many who listen…So it’s no wonder that many people who never told their stories or shared their records, opened their hearts and souls to Mallika.” Paramjit Kaur Khalra, human rights advocate, Amritsar, Punjab