A MONTH OF WRECKAGE: APRIL, ASSASSINATIONS & AUTICIDE
by Budhaditya Bhattacharjee Assistant Professor, Department of Media Science, TISL Ponder a calendar that squeezes fascists and a civil rights activist into the same month. One would hardly pay attention to such a coincidence unless keywords such as suicide and assassination intruded upon the thought. This paragraph is deliberately trying to frame something as haunting and revelatory and why shouldn’t it? Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Martin Luther King are uncannily connected through history, more particularly – through the month of April. It was April 1948 when two of the most infamous fascists – a mentor and his pupil – Mussolini and Hitler, respectively, lost their lives. Mussolini was assassinated on April 28, 1945 by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan acting under orders from the National Liberation Committee. Two days later, on April 30, Hitler shot himself inside an underground bunker ((Führerbunker) in Berlin while Soviet forces approached. Then, in April 1...
