Twenty five years ago, the then Prime Minister of India, Mrs Indira Gandhi was killed.Shot by her own security guards, those who were supposed to be protecting her, but decided otherwise.
They were two Sikhs who had decided that they wanted to avenge the storming and destruction of so much,inside the Golden temple, Amritsar.
Not even beginning to realize, in their widest dreams, the kind of repercussions that would follow their calculated/miscalculated action.
Hours after that, the storm that would rage for the next many days in Delhi began.When a systematic pogrom to decimate and kill thousands and thousands Sikhs in retaliation was set in motion.
And now, it has been proved without a doubt that the state and administrative machinery in many cases, played a role in making it happen.
Today as I caught a part of a TV programme that tried to understand the "whys and hows" of that day and the days thereafter, I couldnt help but wonder...
If what happened that day could happen in a free and independent India, years after its Independence, what are the chances that it will not happen AGAIN?
AND AGAIN ...
AND YET AGAIN??
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