Vancouver: South Asians came together to pay tributes to those who laid down their lives during a peaceful protest against the British occupation of India in 1919, at the annual commemorative event held in Surrey in Canada. Organised by Mehak Punjab Di TV in partnership with Radical Desi, an online magazine that covers alternative politics, […]
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Vicky Kaushal paid tribute to Shaheed Sardar Udham Singh on his 122nd birth anniversary. Vicky recently played the titular character in the film ‘Sardar Udham’, a biopic of freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh, who assassinated Michael O’Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India in 1940, to avenge the 1919 […]
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13, 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army fired machine guns into a crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims.