It is quite a coincidence that I am preparing a review of Radhika Chopra's Amritsar 1984 having just heard of the life sentence handed down by the Delhi High Court to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar for his role in the November 1984 Delhi riots, in which thousands of Sikhs were targeted by mobs and killed. These riots were sparked by the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984, both of whom acted in retaliation for the Indian government's disastrous raid on the Sikh Golden Temple in June of that year, an incursion engendered in part by the rising tide of ethno-nationalist politics in the Punjab beginning in many ways with the partition of British India in 1947.
To say that the event of June 1984, known in infamy as Operation Bluestar, has haunted all Sikh politics in India and abroad since...
