"I felt like a refugee in my own country. In fact, I felt like a Jew in Nazi Germany." - Khushwant Singh

I write these lines on October 31, 2005. It is exactly 21 years to the day since Mrs. Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards. The line quoted above refers to the experience of Sikhs in the days following the assassination, when it seemed as though India's capital was leased out for sometime to Satan, in order for the Sikh community to be taught "a lesson."