The Nellie massacre was a horrific bloodbath that took place in central Assam during a six-hour period in the morning of 18 February 1983. It came in the midst of a bloody fortnight beginning early Feb in 1983. ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta with his eyewitness account of the tragedy on its 40th anniversary, in episode 1171 of ‘Cut the Clutter’.