Public | Private Memory: “When police, political and media - TopicsExpress

Public | Private Memory: “When police, political and media elites all consistently treated the Air India bombings as a foreign event, it is not surprising that Canadians do not recall June 23, 1985. As a nation, we were not shaken, transformed and moved to change our own institutional practices for a tragedy we considered had little to do with us. As many have speculated, the disappearance of the Air India bombings from public memory has something to do with the fact that the bombings were an act of violence largely against a Brown people, and an act intended to intimate or coerce a Brown state, in this case, India, said a report by University of Toronto professor Sherene Razack entered as an exhibit by victims’ families in 2007. For Canadian poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar, its a personal story. Her contribution continues to be hauntingly beautiful. On July 4th, join her in a conversation on tragedy, adaptation, metamorphosis, families and loss at #ISF2014.