A Blinding Flash

A Blinding Flash

“Minutes after he walked unhesitatingly into the crowd, there was a deafening sound as the bomb spluttered to life and exploded in a blinding flash. Everything changed. A moment that, in my head, will always be frozen in time. It was exactly 10.21 p.m.” Neena Gopal’s The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi gives a blow-by-blow account of the […]

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22 Years After Mandal

22 Years After Mandal

  It’s 22 years almost to the day now and  no one remembers him:  The second person who immolated himself following the VP Singh government’s decision to implement the Mandal Commission recommendations. Surinder Singh Chauhan perished,  unlike Rajeev Goswami (who died in 2004),  pictures of whose burning body appeared in several papers and made him […]

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