Fascism Knocking at Your Door
Dr. S. Ausaf Saied Vasfi
How is it that even after two months, Ahmedabad continues to burn...?

Quit Modi Quits
Dr. S. Ausaf Saied Vasfi
The Muslim leadership analysis is that the Gujarat Chief Minister has, in his own, less-than-imitable way, effectively provided a fool-proof blue-print-for the future BJP-led Governments in case the billion-strong, plural Bharat comes under the control of Saffron...

Atrocities Against Women in India
Nihla_ag, Student Counselor
The targeting of women in the Gujarat carnage calls for a sectoral investigation into how women in particular have been affected...

Dance of death in India
Siraj Wahab
It was early this year. Our information technology expert was in India to cover a prestigious information technology exhibition in Hyderabad. It was her first visit to India...

Killing Thy Neighbour - Hindus and Muslims go on the worst murder spree in a decade
Anthony Spaeth
When Afsana, an 18-year-old Muslim living on the outskirts of the Gujarati capital of Ahmadabad, heard last Wednesday that a Muslim mob had torched a train, the Sabarmati Express, at Godhra, she was appalled—and very, very frightened...

Gujarat: Laboratory of Hidutava
Asghar Ali Engineer, March 2002
The riots in Gujarat in which so far 704 persons have died (official figures, unofficially it is much more) is, perhaps, independent India worst riots, both in terms of numbers and brutality of killings...

The slaughter in Gujarat will lead to more tragedy
Martin Woollacott 01-03-2002
There is no more ominously evocative symbol of communal conflict in the sub-continent than the corpse-packed train...

Driving the wedge - Gujarat, why an ugly violence marks India’s most prosperous state
Darshan Desai 03-03-2002
Gujaratis are once again talking of ‘us?and ‘them?..

Communal Violence
Dr. CS Shah 03-03-2002
Tragically, old ill of communal violence has surfaced on the Indian soil again, this time in Gujarat...

When the mob rules
Rajdeep Sardesai 05-03-2002
Amidst the kaleidoscope of images that one has encountered during the Gujarat violence in the last week, one incident stands out...

Genocide in the Land of Gandhi
Anjali Mody 10-03-2002
There was a brutality to the carnage in Ahmedabad, which even in a city with as long a history of communal conflagrations as this one, was unprecedented...

After Mumbai, it's Gujarat
Kalpana Sharma 10-03-2002
I write this column with a heavy heart and a sense of grief I have not felt in a long while...

No Real Peace Till NaMo Rules Gujarat
Batuk Vora 11-03-2002
Can there be real peace in Gujarat after the gruesome communal frenzy running riot following the Godhra carnage...?

How many more Gujarats?
Tushar Gandhi 14-03-2002
The events in Godhra and Ayodhya once again saw a part of our country burning with frenzy and outrage...

Horrors of Hate
Anosh Malekar 17-03-2002
Mindless violence scars the land of Mahatma Gandhi, and heightens fear in sensitive spots round the country...

The agony of Gujarat
K. N. Panikkar 19-03-2002
For five days from February 28, Ahmedabad, the city of Gandhiji's early experiment with non-violent politics, witnessed an unprecedented communal carnage...

A Wounded Civilization
S Gopikrishna 19-03-2002
Is there definite proof to show that man not only descends from animals but can also demonstrate animal-like behaviour...?

Genocide in India A Planned Program
Meena Menon 21-03-2002
It all began in Godhra - or so the right-wing saffron combine (Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)and Bajrang Dal) and its government in Gujarat maintain...

Silver lining in dark clouds
Gourisankar Ghosh 25-03-2002
I read with interest in the International Herald Tribune of today the op-ed of Dr. Ramesh Thakur, Deputy Rector of the UN University. I always respected his writings, opinions and optimism...

Is India going the way of 1930s Germany?
Arun R Swamy 27-03-2002
The recent rounds of violence between religious groups in India do more than reveal the fragility of India's secular state. They highlight the inability of Indian democracy to combat what is essentially a fascist onslaught...

Is India Going the Way of 1930s Germany?
Arun R. Swamy 27-03-2002
The recent rounds of violence between religious groups in India do more than reveal the fragility of India's secular state. They highlight the inability of Indian democracy to combat what is essentially a fascist onslaught...

Gujarat: a plea and a proposal
Balakrishnan Rajagopal 27-03-2002
The ideal response to the Gujarat atrocity is domestic legal and political sanction... So far the indications are not hopeful... If the mass killers of the Balkans and Rwanda can be prosecuted internationally, why not those of Gujarat...?

Covert Riots and Media: What's So Spontaneous About An Attack That Leaves Only The Seventh Shop on A Crowded Street Burnt Down?
Barkha Dutt 01-04-2002
They came swooping down on us like vultures lunging at a carcass. There were at least 20 of them, faces remarkably indistinguishable...

Communal Upheaval as the Resurgence of Social-Darwinism
Jan Breman 02-04-2002

Gujarat and freedom of the press
Kalpana Sharma 09-04-2002
No one should be surprised at what happened in Gujarat on Sunday when a peace meeting at Sabarmati Ashram led to a dozen journalists being beaten up by police...

The mask is off: A tale of two Hindus
Siddharth Varadarajan 18-04-2002
Two weeks ago, the resident editor of The Times of India in Ahmedabad sent our office in Delhi a photograph so shocking it made my stomach churn...

Muslims trapped by India's apartheid
Luke Harding 23-04-2002
Gujarat's Hindu nationalist chief minister, Narendar Modi, holds the media responsible for the cycle of communal bloodletting, but the blame lies largely at his doorstep...

Killing Gandhism
Ambreen Syed 24-04-2002
India's most serious bout of communal rioting and killing for a decade has raised awkward questions about the impartiality of the government, and cast an ominous shadow over a looming confrontation with Hindu extremists - the group that murdered India's philosophical father M.K. Gandhi in 1948...

Stories that must be told
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed 01-05-2002
It is very difficult for me to write this article. As a woman, as a Muslim woman, and as a citizen of this country, how shall I write so that the women who were brutalized in the Gujarat carnage can get justice...?

Fire of Fanaticism
Ram Puniyani 01-05-2002
The incidents of Godra have shaken our conscience to no end. What can be more condemnable than the violence, violence against innocent Human beings...

Understanding Gujarat
Samir Walji 03-05-2002
Condemnation of the on-going attacks on Muslims of Gujarat in the English press has been swift and unequivocal, but denunciation alone will not help us to understand why such a sophisticated and gruesome attack on Gujarat's Muslims could take place...

Democracy: Who's she when she's at home?
Arundhati Roy 06-05-2002
Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was. It wasn't very complicated...

All that is new about rape, George Fernandes
Zafar Agha 08-05-2002
George Fernandes is one politician who never tires of being in the news, be it the tehelka expose or the coffin scam...

Nowhere to run and no place to hide
Helen Rowe 12-05-2002
For Muslim refugees, relief camps are the only escape from Gujarat's howling mobs. Now, the monsoon threatens to close the crowded havens...

The Second Gujarat Catastrophe
Upendra Baxi 27-05-2002
Political discourse remains concerned with people's anguish but is in reality consumed by its own imperatives...

Gujarat Pogrom and Issues at Stake
Rakesh Gupta, June 2002
The Rajya Sabha, Upper House of the Indian Parliament, unanimously condemned the macabre communal carnage that spread from Godhra to other cities of Gujarat...

When pride is prejudice
Coomi Kapoor 04-06-2002
With war threatening, surely now you should stop focusing on Gujarat, especially when things are settling down,’’ a BJP supporter remonstrates...

Ms. Rocca's Statements
Pakistan Christian Post 02-07-2002
Reading through Ms. Rocca's comments to a Senatorial Oversight Committee on Foreign Policy for South Asia on March 22nd of this year, I was taken aback by her pronouncements related to the aftermath of the Gujarat massacre ...

No Orders to Save You
by Bilal Zuberi 04-10-2002
The tragedy that erupted in the Indian state of Gujarat in February 2002 left over 2000 men, women and children dead in just over a week, mostly Muslims -- brutally killed, axed and burned in front of their loved ones...

Akshardham: How many more aftermaths?
Bina Srinivasan 09-10-2002
On the evening of 24th Sept 2002 some friends from Delhi dropped in to visit me in Ahmedabad...