The Big Story A long fight to make the Air India bombing a ‘Canadian’ tragedy
Jun 23, 2020
24:23
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Air India bombing, which killed 329 people, 280 of them Canadian citizens. In the immediate tragedy, the terrorist attack was seen largely as a foreign incident. As recently as 2007, not even half of Canadians considered it a "Canadian" tragedy. Why did the largest mass murder of Canadians in the country's history remain for so long a story about India and Ireland? And how have things changed in the past decade to reframe it?
GUEST: Chandrima Chakraborty, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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