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SABA NAQVI, SMRUTI KOPPIKAR
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India is a nation that was born in the bloodshed and displacement of the Partition riots. In itsDNA, it inherited the schizoid gene of being a large Hindu nation with one of the worlds largest
Muslim populations. It was a historical faultline that was exploited for politics time and again.
Ahimsa was the Gandhian ideal we paid lip service to but the reality far too often was mass
violence. In urban ghettos, in the old cities across the land, small riots were part of the cycle of
life. A religious procession would be taken out, a skirmish would take place, curfew would be
clamped, a minor riot would have just taken place or been barely averted.
But the Gujarat riots of 2002 marked the apogee of communal hatred. Ten years after the
Sabarmati Express coach was set afire in Godhra on February 27, and after the bloodbath thatfollowed, we must pause and ask: can it happen again? Many would argue that it cannot
because, in the long term, Narendra Modi has had to pay a price for presiding over a bloodbath
afterthe advent of 24-hour television. In the immediate aftermath of the riots, however, he
gained enormously. Modi ran a communally charged election campaign six months after the
violence, when he would famously use Mian Musharraf as a rhetorical term for the entire
Muslim community. Modi had been sent to Gujarat in October 2001, at a time when the BJP
under Keshubhai Patel was doing badly and had lost a byelection. He began his first term as
CM on Oct 7, 2001; five months later, the carnage happened; later in the year, in December
2002, he won the state election with a huge margin and began his second term. He has now
been the longest-serving chief minister of Gujarat and will contest later this year for a fourth
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Flash points The Dec 6, 1992, Babri Masjid demolition; Sabarmatis burning coach
The 2002 Gujarat riots also marked the coming of age of anti-communal activism. Several
citizens, activists and lawyers who live within Gujarat have consistently fought against a state
administration determined to block any probe. On the national stage, individuals like Teesta
Setalvad have never relented, losing one legal battle to come back with another. Although Modi
has been able to stay one step ahead of the legal snare, he is certainly bogged down by it.
Outside Gujarat, he may have appeal for the BJP cadre, but regional parties want to keep a
distance from him. If the big players of any regional front in the future are to be Mamata
Banerjee, Naveen Patnaik and Nitish Kumar, the CMs of Bengal, Orissa and Bihar would not
like to share a platform with Modi even if realpolitik were to force any sort of arrangement with
he BJP. Indeed, one can argue that the political price of riots is now too high. Modi is quite
stuck.
The perpetrators of riots are long-term players in the political landscape. The Thackerays
have again bounced back in the local polls in Maharashtra. But the city of Mumbai has
changed under their watch. The ferocity and cruelty of the violence that ripped right through
Bombay (which became Mumbai later) in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition, in two
phases in December 1992 and January 1993, came to symbolise the worst face of a seemingly
inclusive city. Till then the city would be described as a cosmopolitan megacity where caste,
class and religion were not the dominant markers of public l ife. Bombay was the city of
dreams, its s treets offered anonymity, its pavements could turn into homes, its constant
whirring machine of enterprise and entrepreneurship played the great equaliser. Surely, such a
place could not be derailed by communal violence? This belief turned into a shattered myth in
hose two spans of 92-93 when nearly 850 people were killed, 575 of them Muslims; over 2,000
injured and nearly 1,00,000 displaced.
After that, Bombay became Mumbai and no one really calls it a cosmopolitan place any longer.
Resilient, yes, but not cosmopolitan. Bombay had its Hindu- and Muslim-dominated
neighbourhoods but they were not community-insulated as has happened in the post-riots era.
The ghettoising effect of 1993, which continues even today, has made the divisions sharper. In
fact, its easier now to target this or that community and in many areas the other is not
welcome at all, says Farooq Mapkar, who was witness to five namazis being shot in Hari
Masjid by policemen, was wrongly accused of rioting and acquitted after 16 long years. A bank
employee now, he says, There is now a Muslim Mumbai and a Hindu Mumbai.
Aligarh, 1990 125-150 people died in riots set off by killing of Muslims near a mosque by PAC. Misreporting,
rumours, partisan PAC kept flames alive for nine days. (Photograph by HT (From Outlook, March 05, 2011)
The Shiv Sena in 1993 called itself the defender of Hindus. The Srikrishna Commission
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Year Place Toll
Aug 67 Hatia, Ranchi 183
Mar 68 Karimganj, Assam 82
Sep 69 Ahmedabad 512
May 70 Bhiwandi, Mah. 76
May 70 Jalgaon, Mah. 100
Oct 77 Varanasi 5
Mar 78 Sambhal, UP 25
Sep 78 Hyderabad 20
Oct 78 Aligarh 30
April 79 Jamshedpur 120
Aug 80 Moradabad 1,500
Apr 81 Biharsharif 80
Sep 82 Meerut 12
Dec 82 Baroda 17
Feb 83 Nellie, Assam 1,819
Sep 83 Hyderabad 45
May 84 Bhiwandi, Mah 146
Oct 84 Delhi 2,733
Apr 85 Ahmedabad 300
Jul 86 Ahmedabad 59
Apr/May87 Meerut 70
Mar 89 Bhadrak, Orissa 17
Oct 89 Indore 27Oct 89 Bhagalpur 1,161
Oct 90 Ahmedabad 41
Oct 90 Jaipur 52
Oct 90 Jodhpur 20
Oct 90 Lucknow 33
Oct 90Chandni Chowk,
Delhi100
Oct 90 Hailakandi, Assam 37
Oct 90 Patna 18
Oct 90 Hyderabad 165
Nov 90 Agra 31
Dec 90Hassan, Mandya,
Mysore60
Dec 90 Hyderabad 200
Dec 90 Aligarh 150
May 91 Baroda 28
May 91 Meerut 40
Oct 92 Sitamarhi, Bihar 44
Dec 92 Surat 152
Dec 92 Malpura, Andhra 24
Dec 92 Kanpur 254
Dec 92 Bhopal 143
Dec 92/Jan
93Bombay 872
Nov/Dec 97 Coimbatore 20
Feb 98 Coimbatore 60
Dec 98 Surathkal, Karnataka 12
Mar 2001 Nalanda, Bihar 8
Mar 01 Kanpur 14
Oct 01 Malegaon 13
Feb-May 02 Gujarat 1,267
May 02 Marad, Kerala 9
Apr 06 Aligarh 6
May 06 Baroda 6
Dec 07 Kandhamal 12Oct 08 Bhainsa, Andhra 6
Sep 09 Miraj, Karnataka 5
Sep 11 Bharatpur 10
report famously indicted Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and said that like a veteran general, he
commanded his loyal S hiv Sainiks to retaliate by organised attacks against Muslims,
especially in January 1993. The Mumbai police registered four offences against him for a
communally provocative editorial exhorting such violence, but the go-ahead to prosecute was
not given by the state government; then CM Sudhakarrao Naik famously said if certain leaders
were arrested, Bombay would burn; it escaped his notice that the city had already burnt.
***
Riot After Riot
Fifty-eight major communal riots in 47 places since 1967
Ten in South India, 12 in East, 16 in West, 20 in North India
Ahmedabad has seen five major riots; Hyderabad, four; Calcutta, none since 64*
The 1990s saw the most riots in the last five decades: 23
The 1970s saw seven riots, the 80s, 14; the 2000s have seen 13
Total toll: 12,828 (South 597, West 3,426, East 3,581, North 5,224).
* In 64, a wave of rioting in Calcutta, Jamshedpur and Rourkela killed 2,500.
Note: Only riots with a toll of five or more included; deaths due to bomb blasts not included
Data: Alka Gupta
***
Till 92-93, the city police was seen as a proud
force in khaki, worthy of being compared to
Scotland Yard; their brutality and vehemence
during the 92-93 carnage turned them in the
public eye into a force that did not hesitate to
display the saffron beneath the khaki. As police
officers and constables told the Indian Peoples
Tribunal in the immediate months, they wereShiv Sainiks at heart and policemen of a
supposedly secular state by accident. As
many as 32 policemen, including then joint
commissioner R.D. Tyagi, were severely
indicted by the Srikrishna Commission (SKC)
for acts of omission and commission during the
riots. None was punished; in fact, Tyagi was
promoted to the post of city commissioner
during the Sena-BJP regime in Maharashtra
soon after.
Senior Sena leaders refuse to discuss the riots
but point to the thousands of illegal
Bangladeshi migrants and Pakistani
sympathisers who live in the myriad lanes of
the metropolis and sometimes need to be put
in their place. If at that time the Muslims were
the target, today the other is t he bhaiyya or
migrant from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Though political organisations may have found
it increasingly difficult to stoke such large-
scale, mind-numbing violence in recent years,
Mumbai is s till a tinderbox and vested interests
can still play with people. Besides, the
question of justice cant be forgotten when we
talk of riots. It rankles the victims that justice
has still not been done; not only is justice a
prerequisite for reconciliation, its also a
necessary signal to those who believe they
stand to gain by engineering such violence,
victims say. The bomb blasts that followed in
March 1993, killing 257 and injuring 800, have
resulted in convictions, but no one has been
punished for the 92-93 riots except formerSena MLA Madhukar Sarpotdar who was
convicted in July 2008 and let off on a Rs 5,000
bail. When the Shiv Sena-BJP came to power
in Maharashtra in 1994, barely a year after
Bombay burned, the administration withdrew as
many as 3,000 cases registered against their
workers. The subsequent Congress
governments did not drop cases against
Muslims that even the SKC concluded were
false.
This one-sided justice has exacted its price.
The Muslims in the ghettos are angry and often
justifiably so. Every bomb blast and terror
attack since has meant comb-and-search-and-
arrest operations in their mohallas. Now after
every major and minor terror attack on Mumbai,mohalla committees mobilise their peace
soldiers in bastis, c ommunity elders come out
requesting calm and peace, Muslims display
their patriotism through solidarity marches in
case theyre perceived as anti-nationals. The
peace is kept but the tensions simmer.
Still, the cycle has been broken in other cities. Hyderabad, for instance, has moved on. The old
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SUNDEEP DOUGAL
OPINION
Reminding, A Rough ArtOne would never wish 2002 to have an encore, but to discount that possibility would
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Suman Kumar Mishra Works at Tata Teleservices Limited
riots is nothing new with this decade or others.. hinduism and islam being two very
contrasting religions have always stood out because of the diff erences.. t he earlier
onslaughts be it macedonians , kushas came to india and dissolved in the culture ,,. leaving
behind their footprints but ultimately being part of the local culture .. islam was different ..
apart from the loot , it came to plunder , to destroy the thousands of years of culture , to
erase it with sword and gun powder .. it did suceed in some way but wasnt able to erase it
completely ... they dest royed temples which got rebuilt.. they were able to drive off hindus
fromsindh, afghanistan, parts of punjab to east or down south .. people fled but refused to
part away with the belief handed over by generations . . the islamic rule for 1000 years has
been littered with...See More
Reply Like Follow Post April 8 at 4:28pm
Rohit Mittal IIPS, DAVV
how can the authors expect t o be taken seriously af ter writing a communally charged article
like that ; portray ing muslims as innocent victims at the hands of the hindu minority? they
conveniently forget to even mention that 30% of gujarat riot t oll were hindus. It is so
important to be politically correct and pseudo secular in India that no one now dares to speak
up about the centuries of genocide unleashed upon the hindu populace by foreign, mostly
muslim attackers. We are instead taught t hat although these f ilthy barbarians slaughtered
our civilians, raped our women and took lakhs of slaves, they did good deeds in their own
countries. Those times are instead port rayed as a utopian era of hindu- muslim solidarity. It iis
our recurring nightmare that if word of these dark deeds gets out, communal harmony in the
country will go f...See More
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Aparna Vaidik
Rohit is this your response or f rancois gautier's?
Reply Like April 7 at 2:16am
Suman Kumar Mishra Works at Tata Teleservices Limited
Aparna Vaidik is this your response or are you shitting out information from media
which has been so biased .. you should start analysing and thinking .. if thats not
your capacity , dont shit in public forums ,, are u in denial of the 1000 yea rs of
history under islamic rule, are you under denial that any islamic structure you see
be it babri mosque or qutub minar is built over ruins of preceding culture or a re
you in denial that part ition which happened was unjust . i think thinking is beyond
you .. y ou are good in what you have just done . . stink .. go wash yourself
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MAR 19, 2012
The Long Shadow of Past Prejudice
Rather than looking at the possibilities of a recurrence of a pogrom,
the need of the hour is to heal the scars of the earlier riots (Can it
happen again?, Mar 5). The compensation provided to the victims,
both in terms of justice and aid and rehabilitation, has been thin and
nominal; in reality, they face social ost racism. The haunting memory
of your house being burnt, or your daughter being raped in front of
you, is not easy to erase. The courts and the government, therefore,
need to resort to unbiased judgements and punish those who do
institutionalised rioting rather than hold out development as a
surrogate placebo.
AISHWARIYA SAGAR, NEW DELHI
To all those who express their discontent with the biased reporting
of the media against the majority, Id say, it is absolutely valid. The
majority in every country has a responsibility not to let the minority
feel marginalised. The social discomfort they feel develops very
quickly into discontent, then into fear and concurrently into reaction.
This stands true in India where the minority is defined by religion or in
other countries where it is racial, on account of immigration. The
more we run away from this responsibility, the more chaos it creates.
CHINTAN, LONDON
The post-Godhra riots will always remain a slap in Modis face. What
they did is desanctify the land of the father of the nation, Mahatma
Gandhi.
JANGA BAHADUR SUNUWAR, JALPAIGURI
The 2002 Gujarat incidents, deplorable as they were, have been
ballooned up to unnecessary proportions. Ten years is a long time,
the point has been made enough number of times, and systems are
in place so that this kind of thing is not repeated, not just in Gujarat,
but anywhere else in India. Lets get on with life and look to finding
solutions to our daily problems like bad roads, inflation and all-
pervasive corruption. By harping on thus about Modi, how are you
going to undo what has already been done?
PRAVEEN KUMAR, THANE
In your cover story, you say the riots of 2002 marked the coming of
age of anti-communal activism. You can hardly characterise it as
anti-communal. Yes, you can say its come of age: thats because
people have learned to make money off it. Its a business built on the
basis of phony affidavits and fake stories. Such activism has
actually helped keep the polarisation active even though Gujarat has
been prospering without any incidents for the last 10 years. You
wont see these combatants fighting for the victims of the 1984 riots
as there is no glory or financial gain in doing that.
MAHA, NEW JERSEY
It looks like a section of the hyper-secular media wants to keep the
Gujarat issue alive for another ten years.
PRAMOD SRIVASTAVA, NEW DELHI
Indians are so religiously and communally prejudiced that a Gujarat
kind of riot can erupt anywhere, anytime at the slightest provocation.
K. CHIDANAND KUMAR, BANGALORE
Modi is a monster because he allegedly presided over the killing of
1,200-odd people. Rajiv Gandhi is a saint despite the mass murder of
Sikhs in Delhi and his infamous dismissive remark about the earth
shaking when a tree falls. And yes, Modi has not apologised in 10
years. But it took Congress 25 years to mumble an apology of an
apology for the 1984 riots.
CHARAN RAWAT, MUMBAI
Wont you ever get tired of this eternal Modi-bashing? This issue,
sadly, is more like celebrating 10 years of Modi hatred than looking
at things with an unbiased view.
KIRAN VOLETI, CHENNAI
Whatever the secular lobby may hope and pray for, Narendrabhai will
remain the hope for a large population of educated middle-classHindus.
RAJIV CHOPRA, JAMMU
A beast asleep? Certainly, and all the more necessary that the
perpetrators are not allowed to get away. Outlookdeserves special
praise for playing a part in keeping the pressure on for all these years
and not letting 2002 be forgotten.
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SANTOSH JOHN SAMUEL, KOCHI
Can Gujarat 2002 happen again? Not if BJP is the ruling party. If the
Congress is ruling, then we will be back to the riot regime because it
thrives on dividing the society on religious and caste lines.
SRINIVAS, LUCKNOW
I feel quite depressingly certain that we shall be seeing even more
ferocious bloodbaths in the days to come.
ATUL CHANDRA, MUMBAI
It was rather intriguing that Doordarshan chose the third week of
February 2012election timeto telecast Nandita Dass Firaaq(which deals with the 2002 Gujarat riots) on its national network.
Would it now show Parzania? Or wait, why dont they telecastAmu,
which is on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984? And with proper advance
publicity to boot! Or even better, maybe rescue Kissa Kursi Ka from
oblivion!
HARSH RAI PURI, BHOPAL
Only the film industry has done justice to sensitive subjects like
riots. No wonder Modi was afraid to have Parzania screened.
S.S. ALMAL, CALCUTTA
Gujarat 2002 might be replicated unless medical science can fully
eradicate insanity from India like it did smallpox, unless politicians
refrain from caste-based strategies, and religious places stop
delivering provocative sermons.
RAJNEESH BATRA, NEW DELHI
If indeed we have reached a place where the political costs of riots
are too high to figure as a benefit in the cost/benefit analyses of
political parties, maybe one part of the problem would be solved. Still,
electoral politics are about the short term. Over the long term,
perhaps Modis winning a possible lifetime CMship of Gujarat is
enough of a pro to offset losing a shot at a national role.
ARUN MAHESHWARI, BANGALORE
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MAR 19, 2012
Burning Faith
Ten years have passed since Gujarat was set on fire,
When on grounds of religion, mankind conspiredBilqis Banos daughter was snatched from her
That moment is c lear in her head, it did not b lur
In that minute she saw her child die
That one minute can never really pass by
Qutubuddin Ansaris face was all over the world
They saw his folded hands and moist eyes
His sc ream could be heard
Those fateful hours and days
Humanity was on a pyre
To save a brother, a daughter
There wasnt much they could do
Apart from pray for a miracle
Hoping its just an awful dream, an unreal ordeal
Only to see the faith go in vain
To live with scars and a mind torn with pain
Where is justice, after all these years?
Why do people still live with fears?
Gujarat lived the most dreaded nightmare,
Yet, everything is so unfair
After seeing and reading all those stories
We only lose faith in this country
From a layman, its an appeal to the powers that be,
To put justice on priority
Though a mother who lost her child will always cry silently
Families that lost their love will never laugh carelessly
Only a ray of justice can illumine their lives
And help them regain their faith in humanity.
KANIKA KHURANA, NEW DELHI
PERMALINK
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MAR 26, 2012
Give Him His Due
Your cover story on the Gujarat riots (A Beast Asleep?, Mar 5) failedto note that the state has been virtually trouble-free since the 2002
riots. And Narendra Modi must be credited for that.
SANDIP K. PITT Y, CALCUTTA
The Gujarat riots were an organised effort by the higher
administration to kill Muslims and destroy their property.
Unfortunately, even the sit set up by the Supreme Court was found
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wanting in its work, almost as if it wanted to somehow put Modi in
the clear.
C.A. CHALY, KOCHI
If perpetrators of riots are punished severely, riots will never happen.
But when the likes of Sajjan Kumar (of 1984 Delhi fame) and
Narendra Modi go scot-free, riots will definitely recur.
PROF H.S. DIMPLE, JAGRAON
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