The Foreign Correspondents Club of South Asia hosted about 50 people, many of them from the Sikh community, in Delhi. The audience members not only related to the documentary but also recalled the events as they happened.
The most significant change I have noticed in the mails to the Readers’ Editor during the last few months is — there’s much less Hindu-Muslim commentary.
Charge sheet states Tytler 'incited, instigated & provoked mob assembled at Pul Bangash Gurdwara Azad Market' in 1984 that led to burning down of gurdwara & killing of three Sikhs.
Leaders who have won the mandate, Sonia, Manmohan Singh, Rahul, would do well to remember a tough lesson of 1984: trust your instinct, do not flinch from change & a legacy of success is yours.
That the Congress has no business complaining about Gujarat given its own role in the 1984 riots is a sound argument. But if you witnessed 1984, you wouldn’t accept this as complete truth.
As Park Street now anticipates the Christmas lights, Bangla cinema eyes a harmony. Colliding heritage, devotion and some detective grit, the year-ender comes with a rediscovery.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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