AdvertisingKhooni Vaisakhi: A Poem from the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 1919Nanak Singh (Author), Navdeep Suri (Translator)Harper Perennial India144 pagesRs 399A dinner-time conversation between Indian diplomat Navdeep Suri and some old friends brought out a level of ignorance about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. In a narrative about his “bauji”, Suri recalls fond memories about Singh, and places the poem in a historical context of 1919. “I still am sick to my stomach at the way the British forces behaved in Jallianwala Bagh”, he writes at one place. Throughout the book, Suri’s tone — in translation of the poem and in his chapter — is one of “lest we forget” about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. And, in a chapter by Justin Rowlatt, Tushar Gandhi is wrongly identified as Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson — he is actually the great-grandson.

Source: Indian Express June 15, 2019 05:02 UTC