May 2014
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Operation Bluestar
On the thirtieth anniversary, Hamid Hussain traces how the centre-Punjab conflict, Sikh political rivalries, rural distress and Bhindranwale’s rise led to the June 1984 army operation to clear militants from…
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Sanity strikes in Sudan!!!!
Welcoming reports that Sudan will free Meriam Ibrahim, sentenced to death for marrying a Christian and refusing to renounce her faith, after worldwide protests, with a quoted Guardian report.
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The Golden Temple
Posts Hartosh Singh Bal’s account blaming Rajiv Gandhi’s blunders for Operation Bluestar, with the poster’s view that 1984 was a great crime within an action-reaction story, and that religion should…
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So now they understand (350 years too late)
Linking a Guardian report on the Newark by-election, the poster sympathises with devolution from Brussels but asks why Britain should not apologise for colonising India, citing famines, taxation and destroyed…
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Congratulations (Sriram, Ansun, Gokul, Ashwin)
Congratulates the Indian-American co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, noting that the past eight winners were of Indian descent, with the quip that spelling is one area where Indians…
