J.S. Aurora
6 June, 1984: the Indian army storms the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Called Operation Bluestar, the historic and unprecedented event ended the growing specter of terrorism perpetrated by the extremist Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers once and for all. But it left in its wake unsolved political questions that continued to threaten Punjab's stability for year to come. How, in a brief span of three years, did India's dynamic frontier state ...