About the Book: Khooni Vaisakhi
Jallianwala Bagh. 13 April 1919. Twenty-two-year-old Nanak Singh joins the mass
of peaceful protestors agitating against the Rowlatt Act. What then turns out to
be one of the worst atrocities perpetrated by the British Raj, and a turning
point in Indias independence movement, also becomes a life-changing experience
for Nanak Singh, who survives the massacre, unconscious and unnoticed among the
hundreds of corpses. After going through the traumatic experience, Nanak Singh
proceeds to write Khooni Vaisakhi, a long poem in Punjabi. The poem was a
scathing critique of the British Raj and was banned soon after its publication
in May 1920. After