In the annals of Rare Instances When You Actually Learn Something From A Hollywood Movie -- I first learned about Amritsar in Gandhi.
(To my dismay, I have been reading a book in Mexico in the 19th C. and have just run across another massacre, a really big one, a really devastating one, I'd never heard of in my life. I guess that's why one reads books in adulthood, but sometimes I feel desperately uninformed.)
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Date: 2009-04-13 11:33 pm (UTC)(To my dismay, I have been reading a book in Mexico in the 19th C. and have just run across another massacre, a really big one, a really devastating one, I'd never heard of in my life. I guess that's why one reads books in adulthood, but sometimes I feel desperately uninformed.)