Sarbpreet Singh, a Sikh and a community activist in the Greater Boston area wrote a poem titled Kultars Mime in 1990. Drawing on various sources and inspirations, such as the poem ‘In The City Of Slaughter’ by Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and verses from Bhai Gurdas, a 16th century Sikh poet, Singh wrote the poem to express his own reaction to the horrific violence of 1984. He named the poem Kultars Mime after a character he read about in anthropologist Veena Das book on the riot survivors in Delhi.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 05:27:27 +0000