This week marks the 30th anniversary of the largest pogrom in independent India’s history. Between October 31 and November 3, 1984, over 8,000 Sikhs were murdered in riots organized and supported by ...

Paul Woodell: It was only a one-minute walk between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's home in New Delhi and her office, and she made that walk at her usual no-nonsense stride almost daily for most of the ...

The Punjabi language film "Kaum De Heere" (which translates as "Diamonds of the Community") was supposed to open in theaters Friday, but it was pulled after India's film board declared that the story ...

A new film projects a decidedly different perspective about one of the most convulsive episodes in India's modern age. Kaum De Heere, or Diamonds of the Community, looks at the 1984 assassination of ...

Sikh refugees seek shelter in a New Delhi schoolyard in the violent days of anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984David Turnley / Corbis On the surface, ...

Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) [India], October 12 (ANI): Congress MP P Chidambaram criticised the Operation Blue Star under the Indira Gandhi-led government in 1984, describing it as "the wrong way", and ...

Srinath Raghavan’s book is a major and masterly contribution to the study of a period of almost two decades (1966-1984) during which, except for three years, Indira Gandhi controlled India’s destiny.

A new book highlights how political interference and missed opportunities allowed Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale to escalate tensions before 1984. Indira Gandhi's attempts for Rajiv to secretly meet ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) – Legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan incited the 1984 genocide of thousands of Sikhs to avenge the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a human rights group claims ...

The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards. By William K. Stevens and Special to The New York ...