Author: Dionne Bunsha
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 307
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0144000768
Description
Did it really start with the burning of a train?
Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat asserts the existence of a much larger politics of violence, and tells the story of a disaster in Hindutva’s laboratory which etched deep faults in Gujarat’s social landscape.
While capturing the predicament of the Sabarmati Express survivors, Scarred is an intense, moving portrait of refugees whose lives have been changed forever by the violence that followed. It tells the story of people fighting for justice amidst fear and turmoil, unable to return home. It is also an insightful look into the minds of the perpetrators of this violence, and the world they seek to construct-a world where the ghettoization and socio-economic boycott of Muslims have become the norm.
What exactly happened in Gujarat in February 2002? Why did the country’s political leaders fiddle while Gandhi’s Gujarat burned? In this honest and thought-provoking book, Dionne Bunsha tries to answer these and many of the other questions that we are still left with.
Contents
FOREWORD by Zakia A Jafri
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Introduction
Our Children Still Wake Up Screaming: The Violence
Living In a Graveyard: Refugees
We Didn’t Start the Fire-Godhra and Other Terrorist Attacks
No Peace Without Justice
Divide and Rule-Elections
Instigators or Informers-The Media
Looking Back-Origins
Borders
Post-Script
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS