Operation Blue Star anniversary: reminder of Sikh repression

Operation Blue Star anniversary: reminder of Sikh repression

Forty-two years later, Sikh memory of Operation Blue Star has not faded. It has travelled from Amritsar to London, Toronto, California, Melbourne and every major Sikh diaspora centre. Though Indian fire damaged the Akal Takht, Sikh political consciousness rose stronger from its ruins. Ordered by then prime minister Indira Gandhi, the operation was not a routine military action but a full-scale armed assault on the spiritual and political heart o…