Academy of the Punjab in North America

Waiting for Spring

by Nirupama Dutt

The emergence of a Dalit identity in East Punjab is a recent development, spurred in part by the failure of Sikhism to abandon caste discrimination as it initially

averred to do.




For us trees do not bear fruits

For us flowers do not bloom

For us there is no Spring

For us there is no Revolution …

– Lal Singh Dil –

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