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Remembering Gujarat

Tehelka, Journalists Lead Indians to Redeem Their values

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

by Guest Post

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 [...]

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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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Babu Bajrangi: Face Of Hindutva

by Kashif

Tehelka did it again, this time exposing lies told by the Hindutva brigade about genocide in Gujarat. Listen from Babu Bajrangi himself caught by Tehelka’s spycam. NARENDRA MODI visited Godhra on the day of the burning of coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express. His outburst provided the first sign to Sangh workers that the time [...]

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Supreme court: The reason why we should trust the judiciary

by Sharique

The HT reports THREE SENIOR officials of the Indian Police Service (IPS) were arrested by the Gujarat Police on Tuesday on the charge of murder for their alleged role in the killing of a man described as a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba cadre in a fake encounter here in 2005. Those arrested are Inspector General (border range) D.G. [...]

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The day that shouldn’t have been

by Sharique

I have compiled a series of article on my blog. This is the third part of it. Part I, Part II and Part IV As far as I can remember the news about the Godhra incident starting flashing in the morning of February 27th. It was a period when the news channels were slowly coming up. Aaj Tak was [...]

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Gujarat: Thoughts on the Threat from Hindutva and Islam

by Mohib Ahmad

Guest Post by Bhupinder Singh In what is probably the first serious study and theorization of communalism in India, historian Bipan Chandra had pointed out in The Rise of Communalism in Modern India, that communalism is a modern phenomenon that arose when politics became mass politics- “communal” riots as we know them today started in [...]

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