Widow Colony

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa,
Waheguru ji ki Fateh.

just saw the website and promo/preview of the movie the widow colony(visit http://www.thewidowcolony.com/).
the movie is directed by Sardarni Harpreet Kaur ji, who graduated from the Penn State University as a communication major. She has made several documentaries and small features about minority issues.
this movie, The Widow Colony, derives its name from the Vidhwa colony in Tilak Vihar, West Delhi,India , where the widows of 1984 anti Sikh massacre victims were camped by the government.

I have personally been there many times,Tilak Vihar, a suburban area in a city of millions. an area which as a child i didnt wanna go to, because it seemed dirty. Little did i know, the streets of Tilak Vihar are cleansed daily from over 20 years , with the tears of the ones who remain. The latest i visited Tilak Vihar, was a couple of years ago, before i was to come to the USA. i knew all facts about the Nishkaam organization established there helping the widows, yet, i wasnt moved much as much as i was after seeing the promos of the movie. My dad and i drove to Nishkaam, on a hot day, in out air conditioned car, with a lot of old(yet wearable) clothes to donate. My dad is an ocean of knowledge yet placid as a lake. he knows what i am learning each day of my stay in the USA, yet, he doesnt tell me anything till i ask myself. maybe its for my own good. like if u help a larva out of an egg, it can never fly.

We donated the clothes, as always the ladies there took them happily. we also bought some Sikhi related clothes, like turbans, inner turbans etc. from there. They were finely made and i was happy as this was one less thing to buy now for my USA trip.Nishkaam in itself is a small building where the widows used to sew clothes to make a living. Today they dont seek money as much as they seek justice. Justice they ask for, i dont think they will ever get.
the world is fluid they say, no dents remain in it for ever. Mothers who had to spill fuel on their kids, wives who couldnt do anything to help their husbands, sons who were forced to see as their mothers and sisters were raped, SIKHS who had no where to go, no where to seek shelter, no one to call out to.

I wonder how on those 3 days, the friendly neighbor Sharma ji would have turned to kill his good old pal the sardarji next door. Police, MLAs and local goons all in an alliance they came, killing the men, raping the women, looting the houses, burning the Gurudwaras. Some say its over 20 years now, forget it. I ask them, can a mother whose young boy was tortured to death in front of her, forget?
can a newly wed, whose husband was killed brutally in front of her, she herself gang raped, forget?
can a son, too young to save his father who was burnt alive in front of him, forget?
maybe when they die, they might forget.

what i think about now, is , that are the Sikhs forgetting those innocents who were butchered in the Delhi pogroms? i think yes, and it will only be till the last widow of the Widow colony lives, that this colony stay. it will be all dust then. No one has tried to bring to books the crooks who led the mobs.
what can i do?
what can i do?
i hope for the lord to lead me.

Hukmī bẖāʼndė sāji­ā ṯūʼn āpė bẖann savār jī­o. ||22||
By Your command, human beings are fashioned. You Yourself embellish them, and then again destroy them. ||22||