Where were you on 27 February 2002 as India witnessed one of its bloodiest Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat over three days prompted by the burning of a train in Godhra?
Twenty years since the Gujarat riots which led to at least a thousand deaths, there are still many questions and elusive answers about how a large-scale massacre could take place over a span of three days.
Who started the fire in coach S-6 of Sabarmati Express? Was the state complicit in the violence that followed in the aftermath? In this episode of Where Were You When we revisit the event.
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Interviews (In order of appearance)
Jatin Vaghela, son of Rajesh Vaghela — a karsevak who died in Godhra train burning incident
Imtiyaz Khan, survivor of Gulberg Society massacre
Shama Pathan, Gujarat 2002 riots survivor
Rakesh Sharma, documentary filmmaker
Tune in!
Interviews (In order of appearance)
Jatin Vaghela, son of Rajesh Vaghela — a karsevak who died in Godhra train burning incident
Imtiyaz Khan, survivor of Gulberg Society massacre
Shama Pathan, Gujarat 2002 riots survivor
Rakesh Sharma, documentary filmmaker
Voiceover and Production: Shorbori
Editor: Shelly Walia
Music: Big Bang Fuzz
Sounds: Freesound, Doordarshan, Final Solution
News articles and references:
- 'Lord Ram has given me new lease of life'
- Communal Riots in Gujarat: The State at Risk? by Christophe Jaffrelot
- Naroda Patiya Riots: A Timeline of the Case that Killed 97 Muslims
- Timeline of the Riots in Modi’s Gujarat
- History of Communal Violence in Gujarat
- 15 years after Godhra, we still don’t know who lit the fire
- Is Godhra Violence Still Shaping India’s Political Discourse 20 Years On?
- Revisiting Sabarmati Express Fire That Engulfed Gujarat in 2002
- Gulberg Society: The case so far
- Nanavati panel gives Modi clean chit in post-Godhra riots
- Supreme Court to peruse 2002 Gujarat riots’ SIT closure report
- Not Shielded Anybody In 2002 Riots: Probe Team Tells Supreme Court
- The 2002 Gujarat riots cases and their statuses so far
- 2002 Gulberg massacre: Gujarat HC suspends life term of three more convicts