Reshma Singh, Berkeley, California

(English)

Childhood witness of 84, Reshma Singh (a Harvard grad, now working at UC Berkeley, California) recounts coming back to Guru Harkrishan Public School in Vasant Vihar, Delhi after the violence abated on the streets.

“When we entered our beautiful classrooms with all of our posters up there, we saw the walls were completely charred, the ceiling fans were hanging, melted, upside down, and all of us students spent the first week tearing out sheets of our notebooks and scraping the walls clean…it felt like a whole era…everything we had done from Kindergarten to class Seven had been erased…. It was horror.”