On 11 May, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
I have received emails from my blog from young Indians who only were
only vaguely aware that' some sardars were killed.' My God!! Perhaps
this film will help. Who knows.
My wife (not a sardarni) still recalls with horror the scenes she
witnessed as a child in Delhi, in 84. Indira Gandhi's assassination
by the Sikh guards was in turn a response to her controversial act of
sending the army into the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar. If you
may think that the bloodlust among the politicians/thugs/Hindutva-
crowd has abated, the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 should
put any such fancy to rest. This is the environment in which the
"Sepoy Mutiny" narrative is gaining ascendancy.
I am not sure I can bring myself to watch the movie (the impact on
Sikhs was felt even down in the South, and are vivid enough in my
memory), but thank you for highlighting it and hence the atrocities
of 84.
--ravi
