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  Twenty Years After a Brutal Massacre, It’s Payback Time

  

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  Anita Anand’s “The Patient Assassin” documents the life of a peripatetic Indian laborer who waited decades for a chance to kill an official of the Raj.

  Amritsar (India) Anand and India's Quest for Independence (Book) Anita (1972- ) Books and Literature Revenge The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre

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  In India, Protesters and Modi Tussle Over Who Can Claim Gandhi

  

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  Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the national icon would have supported his contentious citizenship law. Demonstrators...

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the national icon would have supported his contentious citizenship law. Demonstrators say it goes against everything Gandhi stood for.

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  Justin Welby prostrates himself in apology for British massacre at Amritsar

  

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  Archbishop says sorry ‘in the name of Christ’ over killing of 379 unarmed protesters in 1919The...

  Archbishop says sorry ‘in the name of Christ’ over killing of 379 unarmed protesters in 1919The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised “in the name of Christ” for the 1919 massacre at Amritsar in India, when hundreds of people were shot dead by British forces.Prostrating himself at the memorial to the Jallianwala Bagh killings, Justin Welby said: “The souls of those who were killed or wounded, of the bereaved, cry out to us from these stones and warn us about power and the misuse of power. Continue reading...

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  9 New Books We Recommend This Week

  

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  Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

  Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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