A Case For Narendra Modi's Abhki Baar 400 Paar!
The deafening silence surrounding the Partition of our country, the largest human migration and displacement in history, then only thirty three years ago, despite its profound scars of death and violence but also, yes also, the silence with regard to the Emergency that India had experienced only two years back surprised me when I returned from France in 1979. Whereas at the same time in France the echoes of World World II still reverberated through conversations, films, books, media: the haunting images of the Holocaust, Concentration Camps, heroic tales of the Resistance, France’s own role in deportations and collaboration, the towering but controversial figure of Charles De Gaulle. Even the personal story of Simone Veil, the Health Minister later President of the European Parliament, with her Auschwitz tattoo, found its place in the collective consciousness of the nation. Perhaps it comes from the luxury of having cities that were never decimated by plunderers and marauders through
