Scarred: Experiments wth violence in Gujarat

Saturday, December 16, 2006 Scarred: Experiments with Voilence in Gujarat Dionne Bunsha is a Special Correspondent with Frontline, one of India’s most respected newsmagazines. She has won two journalism awards for her reportage on the Gujarat violence•the Sanskriti Award and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties Human Rights Award. Dionne Bunsha studied for a Master’s degree in Development Studies at the London School of Economics in 1999-2000, and completed a diploma in Social Communications Media at the Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, in 1995. She has written a book called Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat. In which she 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. 11:15:43 PM Posted By Lesson Learner Comments (5) Society Comments Rajneesh_1975 Saturday, December 16, 2006 11:36:30 PM I wish we could shot all rioters and terrorists without any trial. This is a pity that Gujarat’s janta re elected Modi Government. Indians have “limited” and “flawed” idea about Democracy and the kind of people who should run our Country. yash_mys Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:48:25 PM all I can say is muslims asked for it devalag22 Monday, December 18, 2006 11:06:15 AM yes you are vrey much true yash_mys.see whosoever is writing about gujarat ,is writing with PREOCCUPIED MIND.Without knowing real and ground facts. people like.......,who write anything about minority in gujarat is getting publicity all over india. my point is come ,stay for some in any part of the state and then write pl. pl. pl..I am happy if smebody also write about our KASMIRI PANDIT who are unknown for their own countryman.sad yaveshrana Monday, December 18, 2006 7:26:44 PM Rajneesh --U r right and I think we ought to see the two sides of the coin. why is the mind set of people like our 'learned Friend' is stck up with his own community only--why not KASHMIRI PANDITS or some other communities, may be SIKHS, CHRISTIANS or many others. I' m saying this b'cos he claims to be a SECULARIST n a LEARNER too. As a true secularist, his concern must be INDIA n not Gujrat n its Muslims--about whom even supreme Court was concerned what to say of media--NDTV etc. K.Venugopal Monday, December 18, 2006 10:12:44 PM Dionne Bunsha has obviously specialised in one-sided reporting. If Hindutva’s laboratory etched deep faults in Gujarat’s social landscape, which laboratory etched deep faults on the Indian sub-continent which led to partition, which laboratory got rid of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley which was their home since even before Islam was born? In which laboratory was planned the torching of Sabarmati Express? Nay, which laboratory came up with the thesis that Islam is the only religion and all else is bogus? Muslims would be better off without friends like Dionne Bunsha and N.Ram, red-card holding editor of Frontline, for they are past-masters in making the Muslims see problems where solutions exist.