From Tehelka Magazine, April 25, 2009
A Darkness Unforgotten
As charred bodies lay in hundreds, it was the utter silence that was haunting
The Denial of party election tickets to Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar is little recompense to the over 3,000 Sikhs who died in the pogrom following then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination in October 1984. The wave of ethnic cleansing that raged unchecked for nearly three days across the country after Mrs Gandhi was shot dead (...)