Saturday, April 13, 2019

मर्दांच्या बंदुका उडाल्या मुलाबायकांत ...Kusumagraj, Jallianwala Bagh@100

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कृतज्ञता : कुसुमाग्रज, वि वा शिरवाडकर यांच्या कार्याचे कॉपीराईट होल्डर्स

 Ferdinand Mount LRB एप्रिल २०१९ च्या अंकामध्ये लिहतात "प्रमुख मर्दाबद्दल":
".... Dyer died in 1927, after suffering several strokes. He was given a military funeral at Long Ashton, the village near Bristol to which he and his wife, Annie, had retired. But then, amazingly, he had a second great ceremonial funeral through the streets of London, his body carried on a gun carriage draped in the Union flag, from the Guards’ Chapel to St Martin-in-the-Fields. Wagner underplays the extraordinary fact of this rite, normally reserved for a national hero, being accorded to a disgraced temporary brigadier..."