#Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves—and a headline for this story

Admin5 years ago023 mins

“#Murray Sinclair on reconciliation, anger, unmarked graves—and a headline for this story” I caught up with Murray Sinclair, the former chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in the midst of a national reckoning over this summer’s discovery of hundreds of gravesites where Indigenous children are believed to be buried. Sinclair has…

#Coming to terms with a national shame

Admin5 years ago019 mins

“#Coming to terms with a national shame” It’s a hard thing to reconcile: the dream of national destiny with the reality of national shame. My father struggled with it. As a Muslim in a fracturing India who lived through the trauma of partition in 1947, he has walked—literally—through fire to what he was told would…