We talked with the playwright Sarbpreet Singh (@SarbpreetSingh) on the concept of the play and why is it relevant to all Sikhs today. 

Kultar's Mime is a devised play by J. Mehr Kaur and Sarpreet Singh about four Sikh children who were victims of the 1984 Delhi Pogrom.

The play is set in New York City. A collective of young Jewish artists, influenced by Bialik’s ‘In The City of Slaughter’ decides to commemorate the Kishinev Pogrom by organizing an art exhibition in which they intend to display paintings about the pogrom accompanied by a reading of the poem. As they get together and revisit Bialik’s poem, it occurs to them that it would be very powerful to honor the suffering of the innocent victims of Kishinev by shining the spotlight on other similar instances of organized violence that the world has largely forgotten. They decide to focus on the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 in Delhi and make it the subject of their exhibition, using words from the poem to augment the impact of the paintings they have created about the Delhi pogrom.

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