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.
Today, Canadians commonly regard the bombing as an Indian tragedy, or at most an Indo-Canadian tragedy.