Gujarat Riots

In May 2002 the worst communal violence since partition took place in Gujarat, India. Over 2000 people (mostly Muslim) were killed and tens of thousands displaced. Several independent agencies have accused Narinder Modi and BJP government for these riots.

Latest on Gujarat Riots

Fake Killings: People as Trophies

Subhash Gatade May 6, 2007 interacts: 129

The manner in which the fake killing(s) have snowballed into a major embarassment for the ’invincible looking’ Modi regime is for everyone to see.

Martial Myths

Drupad Kanakia Aug 29, 2006 interacts: 0

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Farzana Versey May 3, 2006 interacts: 204

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra

Church Lures Gujarat Tribals to Christ

Sunil K Poolani Nov 15, 2005 interacts: 199

Poverty is forcing the tribal community to embrace Christianity

The State of the World and other ruminations

Tupac Amaru Oct 10, 2005 interacts: 12

’Our Shiv Sena’

Harish Nambiar May 4, 2005 interacts: 34

Is it a case of the Stockholm syndrome working late? As a young wife and mother she was a victim, ever fearful, of the terror of the Shiv Sena in Bombay. And the real fear of physical attacks. Thirty years later, she called the Sena “ours.”

The Soldier who Annexed 3 States for 3 Daughters

Harish Nambiar Apr 26, 2005 interacts: 23

A veteran of both the 1965 and the 1971 wars against Pakistan, retired Hawaldaar Ramaiah was a fat man with a handle bar moustache that his wife trimmed in the night while he was asleep.

Destinies, dynasties, and upstart pickpockets

Harish Nambiar Apr 15, 2005 interacts: 9

We had stepped into another zone of assault; another variation of the mini theatre where Indian regional identities, destinies and politics clashed...

The Moor in the Idol Junkyard

Harish Nambiar Apr 3, 2005 interacts: 44

It was as if Bhubhaneswar was one vast battlefield strewn with mutilated beauty in stone. And all responsibility for this senseless act of violence and vandalism is Kaala Pahaad. The legend of Kaala Pahaad is the medieval missing link that connected the A

A Good Reason To Cheer

Revathy Gopal Mar 23, 2005 interacts: 193

When Mr. Modi speaks about the pride of India being insulted by his being rejected by the US government, let him know that he himself is considered a blot, a blight a horrible insult to India.

Sense and Sensibility

Harish Nambiar Mar 22, 2005 interacts: 21

At Delhi\'s Pragati Maidan, a lady asked me whether I could depict Krishna and Radha in forms and actions other than what I had ever done. I said yes. And she said to depict Krishna bowling to Radha, while Radha was batting. Bhaskar was blushing...

An Iranian Exile in Sambhalpur

Harish Nambiar Mar 14, 2005 interacts: 36

The VHP issue had taken a more serious turn, filling Sister Miriam Morris, the Christian nun who headed St Joseph, with panic.What had happened was really macabre. One of the children attending the medical camp was given a tonic, which was past its expiry

Manto Strikes

Harish Nambiar Mar 8, 2005 interacts: 19

The smoke had reached an alarming proportion, and the whole chawl would be up in a minute, since chawls have a habit of being burnt down before one can say “damn your blouse.”

The Covered Trucks

Harish Nambiar Mar 4, 2005 interacts: 30

PART II - We left Vapi the next morning, March 3. We started out towards Nasik, back into Maharashtra. Nasik was a four hour ride through rugged low lying bald hills, taking the full blast of the March sun’s fury blazing away...

Intimacies Remapped

Harish Nambiar Mar 1, 2005 interacts: 67

Part one of a series on my travel through a major part of India during the Gujarat riots ... my journey away from the blood and gore of riots to questioning my role, and the roles of others like me, in an India seemingly fast polarising along communal lin

Zaheera’s Jihad

Farzana Versey Nov 8, 2004 interacts: 42

Her bravery is forgotten, she is called an opportunist.Who made her into a star witness and what was the underlying agenda? Modi becomes a star symbol for the death of 2000 people, why is no one pointing fingers at him?

“Final” solution?

Shujaat Wasty Oct 5, 2004 interacts: 153

Review of Rakesh Sharma’s documentary, Final Solution: It is a study of the politics of hate in India, examining the Hindu Extremist movement, a look at their ideology and methodology, and the genocide they conducted in Gujarat.

Meenakshi

Archana Satpathy May 4, 2004 interacts: 66

This is how Meenu or Meenakshi spent each day of her life – an enchanted blissful existence filled with family love, in a small town of Godhra till the gruesome riots of 2002 broke out and in one fell swoop, all was lost…