Sarbpreet Singh, a Sikh and a community activist in the ​Greater Boston area wrote a poem ​titled "Kultar's Mime" in 1990. Drawing on various sources and inspirations, ​such as the poem ‘In The City Of Slaughter’ by Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik​ and verses from Bhai Gurdas, a 16th century Sikh poet, ​Singh wrote the poem to express his own reaction to the horrific violence of 1984. He named the poem "Kultar's Mime" after ​a character he read about in anthropologist Veena Das' book on the carnage survivors in Delhi.

New Delhi, India: In an interview with Hartosh Bal, political editor of Caravan Magazine, former Petroleum secretary Avtar Singh Gill has said that the November 1984 massacres of Sikhs were a well organized carnage.