1984 was the year when life began in a small hospital in suburbs of Mumbai. As the time passed, I found myself singing nursery rhymes,reading mishas/amar chitra katha,not doing homework,matriculating,playing cricket,joining college,bunking lectures,.quizzing,graduating.. ;It also took the same time span for the nation to realize that riots of 1984 were little more than accidental.That Jagdish Tytler is probably guilty, .That Kamalnath,Sajjan kumar and Tandon were also ‘probably involved’ .
1984 according to orwells predictions, would be the year when the world would be reeling under totalitarian regimes and allow themselves to be fooled by the state run propaganda machines.It was probably nothing more than a pure coincidence that it was the year in which Indira Gandhi (who to date symbolizes absolute power) was killed by her own bodyguards. It took little more than few hours for the congress to mobilize its ‘sympathesizers’ to launch a massacre on the sikh community of delhi.
While one did’nt really expect much from a certain Rajiv Gandhi,One did’nt really expect him to justify it either ‘when the big tree falls,the earth is bound to shake”.(now you know who inspired modi’s Newtonian laws). It was also the same Rajiv Gandhi who once stated the “bhrindanwale is a spiritual man” back during the heydays of congress bhridanwale love affair(before he chose to tread the path of frankensteins monsten).
1984 still remains the biggest success story of the government propaganda machines. The nation conveniently chose to ignore the riots and elected Rajiv Gandhi in the 1985 elections with a majority previously unheard of in Indian parliament. The home minister then late went on to become the Prime minister of India Back during my second year in xavier’s, I remember walking out of a movie screening/discussion session on operation blue star which soon degenerated into a secular congress v/s communal bjp debate(thanks to the innumerable bird brains inhabiting the campus). Its suprising how 21 yrs after the riots congress still claims to be the torch bearer of secularism in india and a vast chunk of people choose to believe it.

'I feel like a refugee in my own country,Like a jew in nazi germany'
-Khushwant singh