The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (excerpt) // PADMA VISWANATHAN On the Shores of the Irish Sea // UMA PARAMESWARAN Remembering in Relation: The Air India and Komagata Maru Disasters // AMBER DEAN The Art of Public Mourning / An Introduction // CHANDRIMA CHAKRABORTY, AMBER DEAN & ANGELA FAILLER Tracy Whalen, TOPIA, September 2021 AUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show, Book – Scholarly Typographic, United StatesĪlcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada (Second, Prose Nonfiction), Canada This acknowledgement, the book suggests, involves open-endedness rather than quick resolution, a commitment to memory as 'difficult return,' and a willingness to see rather than cover up histories of racism." "Remembering Air India underscores the profound need for acknowledgement, especially after trauma. an incident that was neglected from public conversation for the longest time."īritish Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol 32, Nos 1-2, 2019-2020 "As a testimony to how the cultural landscape of the world is constantly in flux, Remembering Air India shows how no act of terrorism exists in isolation and may have consequences even after decades have passed. The complex content is demanding, and the solutions are elegant, displaying sensitivity to the subject and cohesiveness while connecting the many structural elements of the page."ģ6th Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, 2017 - Prose Non-Fiction (Second Prize)
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"Another standout for its typography, which is pleasing at a glance and impressive on closer inspection. Remembering Air India is a poignant postmortem on memory and culture." Would it have been different if 329 white Christians died? Remembering Air India answers this last, jarring question. Would it have been different if 329 bankers died, or 329 tennis players? Of course.
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The victims were modest people of ordinary means and little public profile. Few Canadians recall the year this mass murder occurred. The only memorial was in County Cork, Ireland, near the spot where Flight 182 took whole families to their death. "When 329 people, mostly Canadians, perished at sea in the 1985 Air India bombing, there was. Its theme is a wider, and painful, reality: the failure to embrace the Air India bombing and its aftermath as our own.” It explores, through a number of essays, poems and excerpts from the public record, a question that should haunt us all still: why has this terrible disaster been relegated to the very margins of public memory?. The focus of this book is not just on a failure of surveillance, policing, intelligence or the court system. Razack, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Maya Seshia, Karen Sharma, Deon Venter, Padma Viswanathan Drawing together academic analysis, testimony, visual arts, and creative writing, this innovative volume tenders a new public record of the bombing, one that shows how important creative responses are for deepening our understanding of the event and its aftermath.Ĭontributions by: Cassel Busse, Chandrima Chakraborty, Amber Dean, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Angela Failler, Teresa Hubel, Suvir Kaul, Elan Marchinko, Eisha Marjara, Bharati Mukherjee, Lata Pada, Uma Parameswaran, Sherene H. Remembering Air India insists that we “remember Air India otherwise.” This collection investigates the Air India bombing and its implications for current debates about racism, terrorism, and citizenship.
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Today this pivotal event in Canada’s history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have shaped how the tragedy is woven into public memory, and even exploited to advance a strategic national narrative. On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians.