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Khooni Vaisakhi: Poem from the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 1919
In a moving piece of Punjabi literature, this is Khooni Vaisakhi, a narrative poem by prominent Punjabi writer Nanak Singh. It’s an account of...
