It was ninety years ago today

[rachelmanija]

If you don't know about Jallianwallah Bagh, please take a moment to read this account.

"I think it quite possible that I could have dispersed the crowd without firing but they would have come back again and laughed, and I would have made, what I consider, a fool of myself." — Dyer's response to the Hunter Commission Enquiry.

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[vee-fic.livejournal.com]

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.)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I learned it from Gandhi too!