EPISODE · Mar 30, 2021 · 3 MIN
Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper by Mallika Kaur
from Access Unmissable Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics · host Jared Berge
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper Author: Mallika Kaur Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530146 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper Author: Mallika Kaur Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 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.
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