Expert Comment
'I was there' - 30th anniversary of the assassination of Indira Gandhi
Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, she was killed by her Sikh bodyguards. In the following days violence broke out and around 8,000 Sikhs were killed in North India, with more than 3,000 in Delhi.
Professor Swaran Singh from Warwick Medical School was a trainee surgeon in Delhi at the time and has first-hand experience of this tragic moment in India’s history. As a sikh, Professor Singh was caught up in the violence, grief and confusion of the days that followed Gandhi’s death and as a result turned his back on his surgical career and set up a makeshift clinic in a relief camp. He finally left Delhi in 1990 and has recently returned to find out what happened to many of the people he helped.
Rupert Murdoch attack: The power of a custard pie
A protester disrupted Rupert Murdoch's appearance before MPs, allegedly attacking the media tycoon with an improvised custard pie. According to Baz Kershaw, professor of performance at Warwick University, such stunts tap into a centuries-old mechanism for mocking those in positions of authority.
The Political Fallout of the News of the World
In the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal Professor Wyn Grant from the Department of Politics and International Studies discusses the political fallout for David Cameron, the police and the newspaper industry itself.