Sunday, January 27, 2019
Amritsar: The Lake of nectar or a city of massacres
I was in Amritsar on the fateful Dussehra day when more than 60 people were massacred in a bizarre
train accident. Tragedy struck Amritsar on Friday the 19th of
October 2018, when a speeding train ran over scores of Dussehra revelers standing on the railway track after having been induced
away from a burning effigy of Ravana
during the Dussehra celebrations at
dusk near the Joda Phatak. Men, women
and children had spilled over to the tracks, and no one saw or heard the
speeding train in the glow of Ravana’s
flames and the din of celebratory fireworks.
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