Articles with tag: Riots

Responsibility of the Media and the Repercussions of Terror Strikes

Pranay Rupani Jul 28, 2008 interacts: 80

What is forgotten in the attempt to pacify the people is that there is no restraint in labelling a community responsible.

6th December 1992

M B Qasmi Dec 5, 2007 interacts: 86

A turning point in Hindu Muslim relations in the post independence Indian history. It was a moment when all truths about religious coexistence suddenly proved false.

Shaken and Stirred

Qasim Mirza May 15, 2007 interacts: 23

As night fell over the cities of Karachi and Islamabad, two remarkably contrast pictures were seen. As dead bodies were being moved to morgues and injured to hospitals the popular General congratulated the nation on the glory it had achieved.

Absent in the Spring

Beej K Singh Feb 6, 2007 interacts: 3

There seldom was any sympathy - but of humiliation there was no shortage.

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

A Moses on his Harley Davidson

Harish Nambiar Jul 14, 2005 interacts: 8

In an act of symbolic irony, in September, precisely three months before communal riots erupted on December 6th 1992 in Bombay, the Dawood gang or D company as it was called, had accomplished its last secular killing.

Godhra Tak: A note from the Filmmaker

Shubhradeep Chakravorty Jun 7, 2005 interacts: 11

This film has actually inspired Lalu Prasad Yadav, Railway Minister, Government of India, to institute an inquiry on the Godhar incident.

Frameless Heads on Nameless Walls

neha kirpal May 29, 2005 interacts: 5

In a communal riot, people are often shot by the mere mention of their name. Point blank. Your biggest asset turns into your biggest disadvantage.

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.

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

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

If Godhra did not happen…

Farzana Versey Jan 27, 2005 interacts: 95

Has the possibility of the kar sevaks being a suicide squad not occurred to anyone? Could they not have been terrorists out to create trouble?

Documenting the Pain of 1984

Anil S Arora Jan 19, 2005 interacts: 89

The film Amu attempts to delineate the trauma that haunts the children whose lives are forever wounded by communal riots

Bhaiya, Malhar Sunao

Hamid Mahmood Aug 6, 2004 interacts: 179

He slowly opened his eyes, and looked down at her. She seemed so peaceful and satisfied as if all her wishes had come true. Her head was tilted and rested on his arm.

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…