Baisakhi

The Golden Temple at Amritsar, the spiritual home of the Sikhs, is richly decorated and glows with the luminescence of thousands of lights and showers its blessings on the millions of devotees who congregate there on this day.

Baisakhi is also unforgettable for Bharat's freedom movement, for it was on this day in 1919, when Gen. Dyer ordered the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar. Among the innocent men, women, and children gathered there to celebrate the festival, thousands lost their lives in the senseless firing.

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