The Ballad of Bant Singh: A Qissa of Courage

By Nirupama Dutt

On the evening of 5th January 2006, Bant Singh, a Dalit agrarian labourer and activist in Punjab’s Jhabar village, was ambushed and brutally beaten by upper-caste Jat men armed with iron rods and axes. He lost both his arms and a leg in the attack. It was punishment for having fought for justice for his minor daughter who had been gang-rap

• Language: English
• Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
• Release date: Jan 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9789385288319

Nirupama Dutt

Nirupama Dutt is a poet, journalist and translator based in Chandigarh. She writes in Punjabi and English. Her published work includes 'Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi' (A Stream Somewhat Dark), a book of poems, for which she received the Punjabi Akademi Award; 'Lal Singh Dil: Poet of the Revolution'. She has also translated and edited an anthology of Punjabi fiction, 'Stories of the Soil'; an anthology of fiction by Pakistani women writers, 'Half the Sky', and a collection of resistance literature from Pakistan, 'Children of the Night'.