India, July 20 -- Do the names Govind Ram and Rajan ring a bell? No? I will introduce you to both, but a little later in this column. Let's first talk about the movie, Satluj. I watched it the day it was released on OTT. I felt it forwarded half-truths and biased narratives about the period it is based on.

Some facts kept gnawing at me throughout the film. I am convinced that KPS Gill was not a villain, nor did the Punjab Police ever degenerate into a gang of brigands. The violence of the time threatened the very soul of Punjab and punjabiyat.

The distress the security forces and people faced can be understood from the accounts of Major AK Ravindran. One afternoon, he received information about an incident near Harike. At the spot, he f...