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Sikh Formations
Religion, Culture, Theory
Volume 13, 2017 - Issue 3
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Mimic writing: On Rammowalia’s fictional narrative of Air India Plane tragedy

 

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a reading of Iqbal Rammowalia’s novel What the Judges Wouldn’t See? [2005]. It is a fictional narrative of post-1984 events in a Canadian Sikh household, which, readers are invited to believe, bears closely upon the crashing of Air India plane in June 1985. The plot devised by Rammowalia turns out to be a caricature of gross distortion. Its tall claim of portraying a realistic scenario of a conspiracy is unconvincing – knowing Canada’s two national security agencies could not substantiate such a contention. As it stands, Rammowalia’s creative work only lends its weight to a shelf-load of prejudiced writings concerning the Canadian Sikhs.

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