Helium  (English, Electronic book text, Singh Jaspreet)

This book in my opinion works best as a meditation on grief and how it impacts a human being. The premise is well known as one of the most, if not the most, horrific incidents in independent India. The author while objectively laying out the details of the incident makes it seem effortless when he meshes them with what his characters go through.

The realistic matter-of-fact ending may come as a shock initially but I found it meaningful after expending some thought.

Thoroughly recommended

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In his second novel, the multiple award-winning writer Jaspreet Singh investigates 1984 Sikh massacre. Raj is a chemical engineering professor at Cornell University who gained his first degree in Delhi. He remembers as a 19-year-old student watching his beloved professor being incinerated. Singh tackles an important and relatively neglected aspect of history, the story taking in not just the anti-Sikh pogroms but also 2002’s anti-Muslim ones.Jaspreet Singh draws on his expertise as a chemica...