Kanishka bombing 1985, Nijjer killing 2023 and India-Canada relations Ground Zero Jagtar Singh Chandigarh, June 23: Yet another spanner hit the India-Canada relationship when members of the Canada’s House of Commons on June 18 last stood up to pay tributes with one minute’s silence to Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on his first death anniversary. India reacted very strongly with the call for memorial service “as a show of solidarity against terrorism” on June 23, the anniversary of the horrible bombing of Air India Kanishka in 1985 in which 329 people as the airliner exploded mid-air near the Irish coast. Of course, the Kanishka bombing anniversary must be observed to remind the posterity of this barbarity. Years later, it came to be known that design was not to kill by targeting Kanishka but hit India economically. The design went disastrously wrong as the Air India 747 exploded mid-air. The two developments, however, are both related and also un-related. India...