Hanging in balance

Public memory in India is short. Few, today, remember the circumstances that created the Khalistani terrorism in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fewer still will have the capacity to recognise the resurgence of a perverse, deeply communalised, opportunistic and unprincipled politics in present-day Punjab, reminiscent of the mischief that encouraged and established Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in the 1970s and early 1980s, and sparked a movement of virulent terror that rampaged across the state for more than 13 years...

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