The famous English poet HW Longfellow in his poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ advised: “Let the dead Past bury its dead!” However, history of memories informs us somewhat differently. Individuals, communities and nations never forget agony, tragedy and sufferings experienced in the course of their lives, and history.AdvertisementIn 1984, widely regarded as the Orwellian year, the Sikhs experienced humiliation and tragedy, which they were neither prepared for, nor foresaw. It was the year of the Army operation at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in the first week of June — an action that could have been avoided by choosing an...