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| A new biography of the butcher of
Jallianwala Bagh reads like a detective story. Amit Roy reports from London
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| Nigel Collett, the author
whose new biography of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, The Butcher of Amritsar
(Hambledon; ?25), is perhaps the most significant book on Indo-British relations
for a generation, puts it very simply. ... | Read.. |
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a prayer |
| The Saraswati Vandana rings
out twice a day here ? first at 10 in the morning to signal the beginning of the
school day, and ... | Read.. |
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| What
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| It was the mid-1960s. Editors
of a bi-annual magazine called Ekkhon had ferreted out a piece of writing
from the dusty shelves of oblivion and serialised it for their summer and autumn
issues, drawing immense public attention. Among those who ... | Read.. |
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| Temple
of death |
| It takes just one-and-a-half
hours for a corpse to be incinerated at a temperature of about 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit,
which is the recommended temperature for electric crematoriums; it can take four
hours or more if you use an open-air wood-fuelled f... | Read.. |
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KILLING FIELDS: An artist’s depiction of
the massacre in Amritsar; cover of the book
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