Operation Blue Star: 30 years later
June 01, 2014  18:25
Mark Tully writes for TOI: On the morning of June 6, 1984 one of the most extraordinary events in the history of Independent India occurred. India is a nation which rightly takes pride in its ancient multi-religious culture secularism, yet at about 7.30 that morning Major General Kuldip Singh Brar ordered Vijayanta tanks to open fire with 105mm squash head shells on the Akal Takht, the shrine in the Golden Temple complex which symbolizes the temporal power of Sikhism.

The General gave the order with great reluctance.

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