My name is Punjab, some call me Panjab, the land of five rivers.

I am not here to remind you of my ancestors or recount a millennia of history. I only want to brush your memory of my life after 1947.

The horrors of Partition lie buried beneath me. I had the courage to till, toil and rebuild. I was happy, crafting a new chapter, ushering in the Green Revolution in this beautiful, independent India. My country. My home.

I will not repeat the contributions my people made in the freedom struggle — now forgotten and brushed aside. Instead, I want to speak of my life post-1947. Reeling from the loss of my Lahore, I built a modern, secular capital, designed by the Swiss–French architect Le Corbusier, the first planned city of post-Independence India.

But the tragedy of Partition had already r

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