October 14, 1981 (Wednesday)
- India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the release of Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, three weeks after his arrest for the September 9 murder of publisher Jagat Narain. Bhindranwale would be killed in 1984 in the siege of the Golden Temple at Amritsar, and Gandhi would be assassinated later that year by Sikh members of her bodyguard.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
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