Lion Display and Cultural Show February 3 at 6:00pm in UTC+05:30 Location: Tiretti Bazaar
Lion Display and Cultural Show February 3 at 6:00pm in UTC+05:30 Location: Tiretti Bazaar
I first met Wong Ying Sheng in early January of 2012 in a Hakka restaurant. When I walked through the door with my father and uncle, he instantly recognized us and began talking to my father in Hakka. He then turned to me and said in English, “We’ve been waiting for someone to write our [...]
Before his journey to the Deoli Concentration Camp, Andy Hsieh was a student at a boarding school in Shillong, a city that used to be the capital of Assam and is now the capital of the state of Meghalaya. He was taken at the height of the 1962 Sino-Indian Conflict.
Mr. and Mrs. Tang are a quiet, elderly couple. When I first arrived at their home, they looked slightly uncomfortable and hesitant. I could tell that they were somewhat wary of what I was going to ask of them. For their sake, I have given them pseudonyms in this narrative.
The 1962 internment of Indian-Chinese
A few years back, a former internee returned to Deoli Camp and managed to take these pictures.
In January of 2011, AIDCI (Association of India Deoli Camp Internees 1962) sent a second letter to the Indian Prime Minister, appealing for the establishment of an official monument to commemorate the lives lost during the 1962 internment at Deoli. Both the first and second letters have gone unacknowledged and unanswered