Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Note on Contributors xi
Introduction
1 Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold 1
Siddharth Varadarajan
The Violence
2 The Carnage at Godhra 45
Jyoti Punwani
3 A License to Kill: Patterns of Violence in Gujarat 75
Nandini Sundar
4 Narratives from the Killing Fields 135
5 When Guardians Betray: The Role of the Police 177
Teesta Setalvad
An Open Letter to My Fellow Police Officers 212
Vibhuti Narain Rai
6 'Nothing New?': Women as Victims 214
Barkha Dutt, Women's Panel, PUCL-Vadodara and Shanti Abhiyan
7 Adivasis and Dalits 246
Tribal Voice and Violence
G.N. Devy
The Violence in Gujarat and the Dalits 267
Mohandas Namishray
8 The Truth Hurts: Gujarat and the Role of the Media 271
Siddharth Varadarajan, Rajdeep Sardesai
PUCL- Vadodara / Shanti Abhiyan , Anil Chamaria
The Aftermath
9 Little Relief, No Rehabilitation 307
People's Union for Democratic Rights
10 Apart, Yet a Part: Ghettoization, Trauma- and Some Rays of Hope 331
11 The Elusive Quest for Justice: Delhi 1984 to Gujarat 2002 355
Vrinda Grover
12 India's Reaction to International Concern 389
A.G. Noorani
Essays and Analyses
13 The Dialogue of Vali Gujarati and Hanumanji 401
Ranjana Argade
14 Genocide of the Idea of Gujarat 404
Shail Mayaram
15 The Pathology of Gujarat 408
Achyut Yagnik
16 Caste, Hindutva and the Making of Mob Culture 416
Ghanshyam Shah
17 The VHP Needs to Hear the Condemnation of the Hindu Middle Ground 427
Ramachandra Guha
18 Where Will it End? 432
Mahasweta Devi
19 NM and Kalinga? Thrice Impossible, Brother Gill 435
Prakash N. Shah
20 Just Another Day in Ahmedabad 441
Gurpal Singh
21 I Salute You Geetaben 447
Siddharth Varadarajan
Appendix 1Prime Minister Vajpayee's speech at Goa 450
Appendix 2 Chronology of Events 453
Copyright acknowledgements 458
Postscript: Terrorist Attack on the Swaminarayan Temple 460