Past in Perspective.

Almost a century ago, a dreadful event changed the history of the subcontinent for the times to come. April 13, 1919, men, women and children gathered at Jallianwala Bagh to celebrate the festival of Baisakhi. Baisakhi is the Punjabi New Year. When the news of the so-called gathering got to Colonel Dyer, the colonel took his troops to teach the attendees a lesson.

In an attempt to teach the so-called lesson, Dyer went ahead with the greatest ever massacre on peaceful civilians in human history. The reports suggest that Dyer continued firing at the civilians for a duration of ten minutes or more, the firing ended when dyer and his troops were out of rounds. Sixteen hundred and fifty bullets fired across the Bagh back in the day. Immediately after...