On 18 February, 1983, 3,000 people, mostly migrant Muslim men, women and children, were slaughtered within 6 hours. Despite 668 FIRs, no one was ever convicted.
Assam policeman's wireless message before Nellie massacre was ignored. How we came to know of its existence and then found it is the story we are telling now.
In the hideous days of February 1983 Assam election, and ‘Nellie’ in particular, I witnessed peculiar happenings while doing the tasks of the Election Commission in our Chetak helicopter.
I was there looking for trouble to report. And in that awful fortnight, when Indira Gandhi decided to force an election nobody wanted in Assam, you didn’t have to go looking for trouble.
Nellie massacre took place in 1983 in the backdrop of tension between Centre and Assam students’ outfit over deletion of ‘foreigners’ from electoral rolls.
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
If there was no communal tinge and Hindus too were killed, why is the headline so blatantly communal?