First appeared in www.scroll.in on April 4, 2015. The seven days starting from April 6 are observed as National Week in India to commemorate the widespread agitation against the oppressive Rowlatt Act passed by the British colonial government in 1919.  The Act sought to strangle personal and public freedom by stipulating a series of draconian measures.  The government action to quell all opposition culminated in the infamous Jallianwala Massacre in Amritsar on April 13, 1919, in which several hundred non-violent protestors were killed and wounded.