The massacre of the Sikhs in major cities of India in 1984 following Indira Gandhi's assassination is a blot on the face of India and its people. The tract translated into Punjabi from a tract written by a leading woman journalist brings out the heart-rending willing of innocent Sikhs, their families by the hired hooligans and the complete indifference of and certain cases of abetment by the police. It was a total failure of government. The tract is a documentary evidence of this government sponsored barbarism[edit]