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Jallianwala Bagh a 'shameful event in British history' : British Prime Minister David Cameron

Amritsar (Punjab) : On a visit to Amritsar, British Prime Minister David Cameron  described the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 as "a deeply shameful event in British history." "We must never forget what happened here," he said of the shooting of nearly 1000 peaceful Indian protestors by British troops on the orders of General Reginald Dyer. "This was a deeply shameful act in British history, one that Winston Churchill rightly described at that time as 'monstrous.' We must never forget what happened here and we must ensure that the UK stands up for the right of peaceful protests," Mr Cameron wrote in the visitors' book at the memorial site. Before that, he paid his respects at the at the holiest shrine for the Sikh religion, the Golden Temple. Mr  Cameron's three-day visit to India has focused heavily on the  potential of Indo-British ties, particularly business collaborations.    Yesterday, he m...

BLACK IS BLACK , WHITE IS WHITE

IS BLACK REALLY BLACK  ,  IS WHITE REALLY WHITE Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up .                                                  - Muhammad Ali  A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere                                                   --  Groucho Marx   An Indian Dr Ranjan Batra prof of biological science pointed out when one hundred fifty years of official abolition of slavery in USA, that by deliberate Judaic huge brother tedium and oversight, it absolutely was still NOT official. In Gregorian calendar month 2012 , out of the blue he pointed out that one state — Mississippi — had not legal the modifica...