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said: "Beautiful...Scarred is not dark, it is one assured step forward inside the darkness, to explore light... It’s straight-forward, honest to the core, a reporter’s authentic notebook on the wounds that have refused to heal." Sunil Sethi in Indian national TV network
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is an Indian, non-fiction book that covers the violence in the Indian province of Gujarat, that was targeted largely at the region's Muslim community. It is authored by award-winning Mumbai-based journalist
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It raises questions such as: Was it just a burning train that sparked the communal carnage in March 2002? Why did India's political leaders fiddle while
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Some of her other coverage focuses on themes such as abuses in juvenile homes, the agriculture crisis and consequent farmer suicides in
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Writings on Human Rights, Law, and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology : Selections from Combat Law, 2002-2010
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This book argues that there was a "much larger politics of violence" behind the riots in Gujarat, also known as the
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pilgrims, and was blamed by some as triggering off the anti-Muslim violence. This has also been called the
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has termed the book "meticulous, moving, sensitive, thought-provoking." Amit Sengupta, writing in
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This book looks at "the minds of the perpetrators" and "the world they seek to construct", the "
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on communal violence in Gujarat and its aftermath. These awards are the
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survivors, those hit by a mystery fire on a train that killed nearly 58
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called it "much more than just a story but an extraordinary document."
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is a special correspondent for the Indian mainstream
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Index

Dionne Bunsha
2002 Gujarat violence
Hindutva
Sabarmati Express
Hindu
Godhra Train Burning
ghettoisation
boycott
Gandhi
Gujarat
India Today
The Hindu
C T Kurien
Tehelka
NDTV
Dionne Bunsha
Frontline
Chennai
International Federation of Journalists
South Asia
Sanskriti Award for Excellence in Journalism
People's Union for Civil Liberties
The Times of India
Mumbai
Gujarat
Vidarbha
Gir forest
special economic zones
Mumbai
Writings on Human Rights, Law, and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology : Selections from Combat Law, 2002-2010

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