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Asa Nu Maan Watna Da Movie Review

Asa Nu Maan Watna Da (Punjabi film)
(Review by Jasbir S Kang, MD)
Director: Manmohan Singh. Produced by Wild Rose Entertainment
Starring: Harbhajan Mann, Kirandeep Kimmi, Arshvir Bajwa, Kanwaljit Singh and Deep Dhillon
Duration 179 Minutes
Harbhajan Mann, a Punjabi singer turned actor, stars in this new film Asa Nu Maan Watna Da – which translates to "Searching for Our [...]

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Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab – Book Review

Book review by J S Kang, MD
Title:  Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab
Authors:  Ram Narayan Kumar, Amrik Singh, Ashok Agrwaal and Jaskaran Kaur (Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab)
Publisher:  South Asia Forum for Human Rights
Order Info:  $35 to “South Asian Center”; PO Box 391732; Cambridge MA 02139
Free Internet version available [...]

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Twenty Years of Impunity Book Review

Twenty Years of Impunity: The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India. Jaskaran Kaur, ENSAAF. Foreword by Barbara Crossette. Published by Nectar Publishing (2004). ISBN 0-9548412-0-4.
Twenty years after the government-sponsored Sikh pogroms of November 1984, the Indian government continues to deny survivors the rights to knowledge, justice and reparations. Twenty Years of Impunity, an ENSAAF [...]

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