Gitanjali Aiyar was among the first English newsreaders in India. She became a household name during her time at Doordarshan and was recognised for her perfect enunciation and dignified delivery. She passed away on Wednesday
Lest We Forget : Why India Must Remember Its Present Horror
When the age of reason returns, the people responsible should be held to account for the biblical scale of suffering they have inflicted on a people who trusted them.
Urns containing ashes after final rites of people including those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) await immersion due to lockdown, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, May 6, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
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At the entrance to the Hall of Remembrance in the US Holocaust Memorial, Washington, the following words are inscribed:
“Guard yourself and guard your soul carefully lest you forget the things your eyes saw.”
We Should Never Forget - Nor Forgive ‘Guard yourself lest you forget the things you saw’
At the entrance to the Hall of Remembrance in the US Holocaust Memorial, Washington, the following words are inscribed:
GUARD YOURSELF AND GUARD YOUR SOUL CAREFULLY LEST YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES SAW.
The Jews in France have a shorter version of this exhortation:
N OUBLIONS PAS or
LEST WE FORGET. The Jews have a long memory. It s time for us to develop one too.
We need to retain in our collective national memory the near- Apocalypse the nation is going through and the persons responsible for it. There was a time when we stood in long lines in order to live; that was bad enough, but today we have to wait in longer lines in order to die, pleading for a can of oxygen or a hospital bed.