The Rajiv Longowal Accord: The Peace That Never Arrived
Chandigarh, waters, the Sarkaria reference, compensation for 1984: the Punjab Accord of July 1985 addressed nearly every grievance on paper. Its signatory was assassinated within a month, and its clauses failed one by one.
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Operation Woodrose: The Sweep Through Rural Punjab
The army sweep through Punjab's villages after Blue Star detained thousands of young Sikh men, produced the notorious Amritdhari circular, and drove a generation across the border into ISI camps. The insurgency's least documented chapter.
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After the Fire: The Survivors of November 1984 and Their Forty Year Fight
The relief camps, the Widow Colony of Tilak Vihar, ten commissions, the Sajjan Kumar conviction, and the forty year legal fight: what happened to the survivors of November 1984 after the fires went out.
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Morocco Advances to Quarterfinals with 3-0 Win Over Canada
Morocco secured a decisive 3-0 victory over World Cup co host Canada in the FIFA World Cup Round of 16, advancing confidently to the quarterfinals. Ounahi's double highlighted the commanding performance.
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The Assassination of Indira Gandhi and the November 1984 Carnage
The assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 was answered with three days of organised slaughter that killed thousands of Sikhs. The evidence, the impunity, and what the pogrom did to Punjab.
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Operation Blue Star: June 1984 and Its Terrible Arithmetic
The decision, the battle for the Akal Takht, the tanks in the parikrama, the contested count of the dead, and the shockwave that led to an assassination and an insurgency: Operation Blue Star examined in full.
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The Golden Temple Becomes a Fortress: 1982 to 1984
From the Dharam Yudh Morcha's headquarters to Shabeg Singh's gun positions in the Akal Takht: the two year drift by which the Darbar Sahib became a fortress, and the failures on every side that made June 1984 possible.
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Rivers of Discord: The SYL Canal and the Waters Dispute
The riparian principle, the 1976 allocation to Haryana, the canal launched by Indira Gandhi in 1982 and abandoned after its engineers were assassinated: how the SYL waters dispute quietly powered Punjab's insurgency.
Read MoreMatt: USA 250
Matt: this auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On.
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The Khalistan Idea: Where the Demand Came From and Who Carried It
Never endorsed by the Akalis, never victorious in an election, strongest abroad and weakest at home: the strange history of the Khalistan demand, and how 1984 turned an emigre idea into a fighting faith.
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