 Summary of this article
- The people who were protesting the discriminatory citizenship laws, many of them young, several of them women, ended up in prison.
- A thuggish chief minister warned that anyone who said there were no oxygen tanks available would be arrested.
- You notice one fine day that all signs on the road have changed. Your town has a new name.
I am concerned with the landscape of memory. Do you remember how the night-sky glowed with funeral fires? I read reports that the metal in the crematoriums was melting. You were walking among the dead. A thuggish chief minister warned that anyone who said there were no oxygen tanks available would be arrested. There were so many bodies floating in the Ganga and dogs were sticking their snouts into corpses buried in shallow graves on the river’s banks. |
