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| Dyer consequences |
| A new biography of the butcher of Jallianwala Bagh reads like a detective story. Amit Roy reports from London |
| 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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| Like 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 lies beneath |
| 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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