Citizens for Justice and Peace
The woman who lost 25 members of her family in the 2002 riots and went on to help other widows
27-Feb-2017
15 years after the communal carnage in Gujarat, Harsh Mander narrates a tale of exceptional courage. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP | Farzan Biwi, 22, who lost her husband during the communal violence in Gujarat, kisses her 15-day-old baby at a relief camp in Ahmedabad in May 2002. I have engaged for many years with survivors of communal…
The Importance of the Zakia Jafri Petition Economic and Political Weekly
25-May-2013
It is not often that the battle against aggressive communalism, the sustained mobilization that precedes brute and targeted violence and includes hate speech and hate writing, the deliberate debilitation and paralysis of preventive and pro active measures of law and order that minimize the spread of reprisal violence and protect lives and properties, gets sustained…
The end of impunity The Indian Express
02-Mar-2010
It was not simply the number of lives lost, though the number, perhaps 2,500, is not insignificant. The struggle of man (or woman) against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera It was not simply the number of lives lost, though the number, perhaps 2,500 is not insignificant. It was…
SC tells Gujarat riots probe team to come clean-DNA
20-Jan-2010
The DNA January 20, 2010 SC tells Guj riots probe team to come clean Rakesh Bhatnagar. NEW DELHI The Supreme Court (SC) has asked the special investigation team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riot cases to file its response to the allegations that it has withheld some vital evidence regarding the involvement of ruling…