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...powerful car bomb killed 11 people in northern India, including Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, outside government headquarters. New Delhi bureau chief Dick Thompson reports that the blast destroyed three vehicles, broke windows in nearby buildings, and ripped Singh and his guards' bodies. The murders are ironic: "Singh and his police chief were widely credited with ending years of violence in Punjab. That success was shared by the man who engineered Singh's election, India's Prime Minister Rao. Now, Rao's anti-terrorism accomplishment seems to have been blown apart also." Though no group has claimed responsibility...
...Pakistan-backed terrorist is arrested in Punjab...
...Anyone surveying the road outside the American consulate in New Delhi in the 1980s would have espied a sea of turbans. The Sikhs were leaving, fleeing a plague of anti-Sikh terrorism in Punjab and the poisonous sentiment that had seeped into other parts of India as well. "Why not join us?" Sikhs who had made it safely to New York and Toronto were asking relatives back home. That question was certainly weighing on Satbir Kang, when at age 21 she first applied for a visa...
Through Oct. 31: "From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan." Works commissioned for Rajput princes and their courts from the 17th through the 19th centuries. The show features lively vignettes of Hindu gods and goddessers and deptictions of courtly activities vividly painted in brilliant palettes...
...From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan," through Oct. 31. Works commissioned for Rajput princes and their courts from the 17th through the 19th centuries. The show features lively vignettes of Hindu gods and goddesses and depictions of courtly activities vividly painted in brilliant palettes...