COLLECTIVE AMNESIA

COLLECTIVE AMNESIA

9/11, 7/7, 26/11 and now October 7, days that will be remembered by the world for their terror horror. Will the world forget August 16, 1946, the dastardly day of the Great Calcutta Killing that precipitated Partition? That was the October 7 of the Hindus. Has any memorial been ever raised to mourn the murdered and the mutilated that day? Has any shrine been built to mourn the dismemberment of the ancient motherland subsequently on August 14, 1947? Has any memorial been raised to honour the desecration, destruction, devastation and dispossession of 80--100 million Hindus over 1300 years of invasion, conquest and colonisation whose horrific harvest we are still reaping to the gradual grinding of our Sanatan civilisation?

Written by Sugata Bose