happy yugadi 5115 kali yuga; happy vishu, baisakhi

and remember always, jallianwallah bagh, april 13, 1919 CE

http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/apr/13rajeev.htm

Remember Jallianwallah Bagh!

One Baisakhi day, 80 years ago it was: April 13, 1919 -- a day that will live in infamy. At that walled garden with only a single exit, in Amritsar, in the Punjab, ten thousand people gathered, mostly to celebrate the arrival of Spring; women, children and old people included. At the end of the day, 1,579 lay dead or wounded, fired at, without warning, on orders from a British general, one General Dyer. 1,600 bullets, 1,579 casualties.

This was the pivotal moment in the Freedom Struggle; this barbaric act, as well as the lack of contrition that followed. Clearly, Indian lives meant nothing to the British. When Dyer was felicitated -- not censured -- in the British House of Lords, even Mahatma Gandhi, that apostle of tolerance, was moved to suggest that "co-operation in any shape or form with this satanic government is sinful".

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