“I Challenge the Darkness”: From TIFF to the Classroom, Khalra’s Light Refuses to Go Out
Jaswant Singh Khalra told a story before he was silenced. Now, we must carry its light.
Before Jaswant Singh Khalra was abducted and murdered in 1995 for uncovering the extrajudicial killings of thousands of Sikhs in Punjab, he shared a Punjabi folktale.
I’ve turned to that story many times when hope felt fragile, when truth was under siege, and when the night seemed too…
