In the spring of 1988, Paul Glastris, now editor in chief of the Washington Monthly, wrote this dispatch for The New Republic magazine after he and his wife Kukula Glastris interviewed Sikh separatists who had seized control of the Golden Temple of Amritsar in Punjab, India. Weeks later, the separatists died in gun battles with the Indian military.
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