The program is rather unimaginatively titled - as if there can be any famous assassinations! But both episodes were interesting (History Channel – Sunday 6pm to 7pm). The first one was on the assassination of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. I felt that I was hearing the names Bhindranwale and operation Blue Star after a very long time. There was a time when the news broadcasts across India were filled with acts of the terrorism in Punjab and the name of Bhindranwale featured prominently among them. Same goes for LTTE, Shivarasan, Nalini and Dhanu – the cast of characters in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
It looked like this program was made in 2007 because it said that as of 2007, Prabhakaran – the leader of LTTE – was still leading the terrorist outfit.
As an aside, it was amusing to see that one particular ticker displaying the date and place (city as well as country) of major events in the episode on Che Guevara listed just “Washington DC” instead of “Washington DC, USA” :-)
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