
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a charismatic Sikh preacher, who became a symbol of militant religious fundamentalism and anti-establishment fervour in the early 1980s — but whose committed band of followers held him in high regard — was born a few months before India’s independence. His death on 6 June 1984 during the Indian army’s storming of the Golden Temple — the Sikhs’... Read More →