No tears for these martyrs
CHAURI CHAURA: Railway stations are class-conscious creatures. The big ones parade their wares like models flaunt their bodies: swank escalators, branded food courts and neat waiting rooms. The small ones, sadly, are condemned to wallow in anonymity.
Chauri Chaura belongs to the second category. Trains, with the exception of the odd local passenger, seldom stop here. But an event that happened 85 years ago, barely 100 yards from this unremarkable railway station, ensured that the small kasbah in eastern Uttar Pradesh lost its obscurity forever and found a place in history textbooks.