[van-announce] Sep 3 Book launch- Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat

[Harsha]

A Sansad Forum and Book Launch

We are very pleased to present to you
Ms. Dionne Bunsha
a multiple award winning journalist based in Mumbai,
and the author of
Scarred; Experiments with Violence in Gujarat
(Penguine, 2005).

Sunday, Sepember 3, 2006
3-5 p.m.
Spartacus Bookstore,
319 W. Hastings, Vancouver.


Working for one of India's leading Newsmagazines, Frontline, Ms.
Dionne Bunsha has received three journalism awards for her reportage on
the fascist genocidal pogrom in Gujarat: the Sanskriti Award for
Excellence in Journalism 2003, the People's Union for Civil Liberties
Human Rights Journalism Award 2003, and the International Federation of
Journalists Tolerance Prize for South Asia 2005.

The book is a continuation of Ms. Bunsha's explorations to understand as
to what happened in 2002, why, and what is the situation now.
More importantly, it is a strong reminder that Gujarat must not be forgotten.

It was an assault on the very foundations of pluralistic India.
It can happen again, elsewhere.

Narendra Modi, the architect of that calculated genocide is still the
Chief Minister of Gujarat, and has become an icon of the Hindutava fascist
forces.

Copies of the book Scarred will be available at the meeting.

Ms. Bunsha will talk about the one-hundred-thousand-plus people who had
become refugees and who still cannot go back to their homes and villages,
about the judicial processes underway, about the
insecurities the Muslim minortity people face in the  hugely
polarized social-cultural life in Gujarat.


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