“What,” my daughter asked, an incredulous look on her face, “are we going all this way to commemorate an event that took place three hundred and fifty …
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Survivors, Memory and the Burial of Truth in Bollywood
There is a well known book on the eminent director Steven Spielberg’s making of the movie ‘Schindler’s list’. The book was written by a polish reporter who worked with him and was fascinated by how …
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Did the building of Birla Temple in Delhi end an era of fear for Hindus?
A story I heard almost forty years ago comes to my mind as I write this. It was somewhere in the late seventies when my father used to work in Gol market and the school where he taught was next …
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When the sanitized history of a nation falls apart
A couple of years ago, we were on the last leg of our trip to USA. We were staying in Baton Rouge with my ex teacher and guide. New Orleans and Baton Rouge in deep south are two of my favorite cities …
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Why the second generation looks for justice
“Memory is now our only tool against the falsification of history” says Aditya, the protagonist of the novel “The infidel next door” when the judge asks him to bring evidence for the atrocities …
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A Jewish Encounter
“The education of every Jewish child begins by knowing about the concentration camps.” The year was 1997 and this statement was made to me by a Jewish psychologist as we sat and talked on the …