Indian student protests suggest Indian universities have successfully educated youth to participate and lead in public life. For exercising this right, students have been beaten and detained.
Creative artists have tried, through performance, literature and film, to fill a gap in public memory and bring us closer to the tragedy’s untold stories. They offer testimony to the deep legacy of unacknowledged grief, showing how loss changes one’s identity.
The re-elected Indian PM's carefully crafted, religiously coded public enactment of patriotic loyalty is a dog whistle to those who support his vision of a Hindu nationalist 'new' India.