The ‘Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Commemoration Exhibition’ sheds light on the fateful massacre | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

The ‘Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Commemoration Exhibition’ sheds light on the fateful massacre | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Updated: April 18, 2019 9:28:57 am

The ‘Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Commemoration Exhibition’ sheds light on the fateful massacre

Using the help of unknown facts and intimate details of what happened before and after the massacre, it examines whether the fateful event was a well-planned conspiracy by Dyer to confine those gathered inside the premises, which was devoid of any escape route.

The tribute installation at IGNCA

Colourful turbans and juttis, including those of children, lie spilled around an installation made of mud on the floor of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. A reminder of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, when the ground was laden with bodies and their belongings, ones that lay there for weeks after the shootings on April 13, 1919. At the “Jallianwala Bagh Centenary Commemoration Exhibition (1919–2019)”, on display till April 28, eye witness accounts from ‘The Congress Committee Report, Vols I & II’, pop up alongside. One of them is that of Lala Nathu Ram, who searched almost every dead person till he found his 25-year-old brother, lying under four dead bodies. Another witness Girdhari Lal said back then, “people were hurrying up and many had to leave their dead and wounded because they were afraid of being fired upon again after 8 pm.” His quote is the text on a wall.