Nostalgia

nostalgia

Two important events, both tragedies and both from two decades ago, came back to haunt public memories.

The world's worst chemical disaster completed two agonising, bitter decades, in which litigation and pain have played equally dissatisfying parts. The anti-Sikh riots, a blot on modern Indian society as few others, also have the 'survivors' a landmark to come to terms with their lives and losses. Indira Gandhi's assassination and its legacy still continues to reverberate. Both were commemorated in a number of ways, but the pain is unlikely to die out soon.

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On a happier note, Bollywood sought almost all its inspiration from its past - whether it was Mughal-e-Azam and Sholay re-releasing, or the biggest blockbusters of the year - Veer-Zaara, Main Hoon Naa and Swades, harking back to yesteryears in more ways than one. Heck, even some of the songs were composed by people long dead! Long live the past.