Jagdish is a daughter of Harnam Singh - a freedom fighter of India who braved the bullets at Jallianwala Bagh and came out alive after lying buried under a heap of bodies for 3 days. Her husband was a civil engineer in the Indian Army. During the 1984 riots, she lost her husband, her three brothers and her son was burnt alive before her. She took him in her arms and begged the blood-thirsty mob to stop jeering and give her some water to put in his mouth. No heart melted. Since then, she's shifted to the city of Amritsar.
“On November 2, a day after my son and my husband were killed and policemen refused to file even a complaint, a well-wisher informed me that ‘MP Sahib is holding a meeting in nearby Manglapuri’ and that I could take his help to get a police complaint filed. When I reached there, I heard Sajjan Kumar saying "EK BHI SIKH BACHNA NAHI CHAIYE..JO HINDU BHI SIKH KO CHUPAYEGA, USKA BHI GHAR JALA DO. I rushed back without meeting him” , she said. Till this day, she added, she is trying to fathom why the entire Sikh community was attacked when just two sikhs shot the then Indian PM, Indira Gandhi. (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/The-mob-jeered-I-begged-but-no-heart-melted/articleshow/5415055.cms)
Twenty-five years have passed and the people of that fury mob are still free. Her question remains unanswered yet each one of us know the answer in our heart. Thousands of such stories were penned with blood during the anti-sikh riots of 1984. When on earth will humans understand that peace, love, justice, revenge and related things can't be achieved with war?? Nothing except the war is real. The wounds of wars can never be healed for they are absolute. Though she got the compensation, but was it reparable?? Well, call it fate or injustice or just another war story, the fact is that the wife of an Indian soldier and the daughter of an Indian freedom fighter got in reward, her son being murdered in front of her eyes and the death of her husband and her three brothers. All this done by fellow Indians in the name of the monster called "religion".

