#2 - Slow Violence in Post 1984 Punjab: Remembering, Forgetting, and Refusals

In this episode of the Sikh Formations Podcast, host Aneeth Kaur Hundal speaks with Inderpal Grewal and Sasha Sabharwal about their influential article “Slow Violence in Post-1984 Punjab: Remembering, Forgetting, and Refusals.” Together they explore how memories of the conflicts surrounding 1984 anti‑Sikh violence and the years that followed continue to shape everyday life, gendered experiences of violence, and diasporic memory. Drawing on ethnographic research with women across Punjab and the diaspora, the conversation examines how forms of slow, structural, and ordinary violence complicate dominant narratives about militancy, counterinsurgency, and state power.