Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Acknowledgements x
4. The Art of Public Mourning: An Introduction xii
5. Remembering in Relation
6. Remembering in Relation The Air India and Komagata Maru Disasters 3
7. On the Shores of the Irish Sea 29
8. The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (excerpt) 33
9. Remembering across Place and Time: The Komagata Maru and Air India 49
10. A Nation Outside of History
11. From Foreign to Canadian: Air India and the Ongoing Denial of Racism 55
12. The Impact of Systemic Racism on Canada’s Pre-Bombing Threat Assessment and Post-Bombing Response to the Air India Bombings 85
13. Courtroom #1 from the Flight 182 Series 118
14. In the Vestibule of the Nation 119
15. The Political Apology
16. Politics of (Im)moderation: The Production of South Asian Identities in the Canadian Apology for Air India Flight 182 127
17. Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada at the Commemoration Ceremony for the 25th Anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 Atrocity 153
18. The Canadian Government’s Apology to the Victims and Families of Air India Flight 182 159
19. Creative Archive
20. Mediating Memories of the 1985 Air India Bombings: A Critical Dance with Lata Pada’s Revealed by Fire 167
21. Revealed by Fire Artist: Statement 183
22. An Invocation Dance for Lata 187
23. An Ethics of Remembering: Air India 182 and Its Creative Archive 189
24. Personal Loss, Collective Grief
25. Model Mourning, Multiculturalism, and the Air India Tragedy 195
26. The Management of Grief 221
27. Desperately Seeking Helen: Film Synopsis 239
28. Air India, unsent / letters from the archive 241
29. “Courting Aphasia, We Travel” 287
30. Contributors 291
31. Index 297