India, April 21 -- If this reporter were to pick a moment that set the tone for the fourth edition of The Sacred Amritsar festival held from February 20 to 22, it would be veteran journalist Harinder Baweja recounting the days of militancy in 1980s Punjab. In a mid-morning session with diplomat Navdeep Suri titled Reporting Conflict: Punjab and its Traumas, the author of They Will Shoot You, Madam, spoke about visiting the Golden Temple after separatists led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who had occupied the place, were killed during Operation Blue Star in 1984. She was appalled at the sight of human faeces and hair in vessels used for holding kadha prashad. A sense of great unease enveloped the audience as they listened to Baweja recall...