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Remembering Gujarat

Ahmedabad Turns 600: Day To Recall Vasant-Rajab Sacrifice

by Guest Post

Vasant and Rajab lived together, breathed together and died together for a noble cause but death separated them. But they will never be separated. The spirit of both Vasant-Rajab will remain with us. But the bottom line seems that we don’t feel to care, cherish and follow the message of these two immortal heroes of the history.

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Mallika Sarabhai Writes To Amitabh Bachchan

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You have said that you are our Ambassador because we have Somnath and Gandhi. Somnath was built for people. Gandhiji was a man of the people. Do the people of this State matter to you? If they do, perhaps your decision will be different. I hope you will read this letter and decide.

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Relief For Gujarat Riot Victims, Justice Still Eludes

by Mohib Ahmad

Compensation package from the Indian government is not justice, just relief.

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Bilkis Bano: The Face of Courage

by Mirza Faisal

Bilkis Bano by her grit and determination has shown the real face of courage.

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Two Poems On Gujarat Violence

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by Ashok Gupta  

In the memory of 2000 men women and children killed in the state led genocide of Gujarat in 2002 and 200,000 who lost their homes and dignity.
Shame
I should be ashamed
of raising issues that divide
-they say.

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Observations on Gujarat

by Kashif

In my short life as a journalist I have made lot of friends and one of those friends is Lucknow based Hindi journalist Nasiruddin Haider Khan. He writes truthfully on what he observes and feels. Recently he was in Gujarat before the polls and wrote four articles about what he observed there.
Below are links to [...]

Tehelka, Journalists Lead Indians to Redeem Their values

by Mirza Akhtar Beg

Tehelka, the intrepid news magazine did what the Indian government should have done in the past five years. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to the editor of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal and reporter Ashish Khetan who took enormous risk to procure evidence on video tapes about the planning of the genocide perpetrated by the [...]

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Liar Lawyer

by Kashif

Advocate Arvind Pandya was the public prosecutor, he represented people of Gujarat who were victims of Gujarat genocide of 2002. His job was to follow the case, prosecute people who looted, killed, and raped or helped in any of these acts. He was the hope for thousands of victims of the year 2002 that shamed [...]

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Tehelka Expose: The Political Context

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Guest Post by Bhupinder Singh
Despite the hoopla surrounding the Tehelka expose of Narendra Modi’s role in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, it is unlikely to have a negative fallout on Mr Modi’s immediate electoral prospects- indeed it is likely that it will on the contrary provide a surge in favour of Modi, unless there is [...]

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Refuge of the Scoundrel

by Mirza Faisal

In the context of the Gujarat Tehelka expose India needs to wake up and take notice. I am not asking about taking notice of the act because that has been known to all for long through works like Rakesh Sharma’s Final Solution. India needs to take notice of the reactions of a section to the [...]

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