Sikh militancy and State repression in Punjabi in the 1980-90 decade left a trial of bitterness, misery, devastation of life and property on a large scale. It has left permanent scars on the Sikh psyche. The articles in this volume written by a journalist of a vernacular Punjabi daily narrate the incidents of killing of Sikh militants and their families in Punjab. The narration is based on the door-to-door visits of the author to the homes and villages of killed Sikhs, interviews with their families, village elders and informed people. The whole account is a chronicle of the tragic decade[edit]
