Creative Remembrance – Renée Sarojini Saklikar in Conversation with Angela Failler

History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference (May 6-7, 2016)   This presentation features poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Simon Fraser U) in a live interview with scholar-critic Angela Failler (U of Winnipeg) discussing air india [redacted], a recent work of operatic theatre based on Saklikar’s collection of elegies, children of air india. Together Saklikar and Failler reflect on the challenges and possibilities inherent in producing aesthetic responses to the complex and ongoing history of the Air India bombings. Chair: Terri Tomsky (U of Alberta) --------------------------- On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the majority of whom were South Asian Canadians, including 82 children under the age of 13. Canadians of Italian, Irish, and Quebecois heritage were included among the dead. It resulted in t