Delhi - 1984 - Was Not Fiction: A Memoir-Fiction of a Class IX Sikh Boy in Delhi in the Year That Changed Everything

In 1948, George Orwell imagined 1984 as a warning.

For one Sikh schoolboy in Delhi, 1984 became a memory.

Delhi - 1984 - Was Not Fiction is a short memoir-fiction based on the author’s recollections of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in Delhi.

A normal school day turns into fear, mobs, barricaded homes, uncertainty, survival and the loss of childhood innocence.

Decades later, reading Orwell’s 1984 brings those memories back and reveals an unsettling parallel between Orwell’s dystopia and Delhi in 1984.

A powerful personal story about fear, identity, family, survival, humanity and memory.