"There is this anxiety which we live with. When I travel, I have to be very aware of where I am, what I say, what I do. I feel unease even at disclosing my name to the ticket checker in the train."
Listen to the story of a couple (Shia-Sunni) by Sukirat
“We, as a society, are becoming more educated and technologically advanced but are falling behind on our values of tolerance and acceptance of others, especially those from other sects (and religions).”
Sukirat Singh Anand (better known as Sukirat) is a short story writer, journalist and translator. He was born in 1956 in an illustrious literary and political family of the Punjab: his maternal grandfather (nana) being Gurbaksh Singh of Preet Lari and his father Jagjit Singh Anand, a communist leader, and editor of Nawan Zamana. His mother Urmila was a prose writer in her own right. He spent 24 years in Moscow from the early 1970s till late 1990s and witnessed the transformation in Russia. He wrote a book My years in Russia; A Time to Remember and recorded his memoirs.
