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The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement, Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the anti-Sikh violence unleashed thereafter. With a timeline that moves from seven years before to a decade after 1984, the book strives to answer critical questions that continue to linger till today.

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The book exposes the strategy deployed by the central government to destabilize the state , the hunger to dominate state politics, the age old practise of divide and rule and use of religion to stoke the same. This approach has been used by numerous political parties in India at different time periods and clearly indicates the immature Indian mind which still is stuck deep rooted in age old systems of caste, creed and religion. Must read to understand how we all are made to follow an ideology, a movement,a direction through propaganda and manipulation. Must read to be able to understand the deep reasons for these conflicts which aim to benefit the power hungry echelons of our society. Manbir.

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After twenty-six years in the R&AW, G.B.S. Sidhu retired as special secretary in the R&AW in 1998. His book Sikkim: Dawn of Democracy (2018) talks about his role in the state's 1975 merger with India, when he was head of the R&AW station at Gangtok.

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