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Mother India, Papa Patriots and Black Sheep

Edit CounterPunch 18 Mar 2016
“Mother India” by M.F.Husain. “Bharat Mata ki Jai (Hail Mother India)” sounds like a war cry. In the past few days it has indeed become one ... India is getting transformed into a place of worship ... Mine happened after the Bombay riots of 1992-93 following the demolition of the Babri Masjid; Umar Khalid’s happened now ... It reminded me of the picture of another man pleading with folded hands to be spared during the Gujarat riots ... ....

A strategic omission of inquiry

Edit The Hindu 10 Mar 2016
Commissions of inquiry into communal violence in India rarely end up indicting culprits but there are some like the Srikrishna Commission report on the Bombay riots of 1992-93 which at least present a surgical account of the state’s complicity and wilful ignorance by its agencies in preventing violence ... “The Inquiry Commission has held that prima facie the main responsibility for the riots goes to Prabal Pratap Singh....

Remembering Sindh

Edit The Hindu 03 Feb 2016
Once on Bombay’s soil, the community began life and trade again, settling into a new culture while rarely speaking of the one they’d left behind ... From myriad sources ... The first time she saw an umbrella was in the Bombay monsoons ... Moving forward ... The book, however, revisits an article published by Situ which writes of how visiting Muslim neighbourhoods after the Bombay riots changed her views ... Keywords....

Standing Witness

Edit Indian Express 02 Feb 2016
Kanwar has included women who accuse the Army of sexual violence in conflict zones of Northeast India and Kashmir, Dalit women who suffer public rape and humiliations, Muslim and Hindu women who were targeted during the 1992-93 Bombay riots and 2002 Gujarat riots ... Perhaps, he says, it began with the Gujarat riots in 2002, when he read about sexual attacks taking place in public view with the vocal support of the crowd....

Bollywood 'childish' to speak of intolerance: Shatrughan Sinha

Edit Deccan Herald 25 Jan 2016
Veteran Bollywood actor and BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha today said that it is "nadaan" (childish) for some in Bollywood to say there is intolerance in the country, and that he does not agree with them ... "Only success is recognised here ... The Shatrughan Sinha Biography" at the festival. The portion from the book talked about how Sinha had during the 1992 Bombay riots helped the current Imam Bukhari's brother to escape to safety ... ....

What’s in a name? Mumbai 20 years on from Bombay

Edit Deccan Chronicle 13 Nov 2015
Mumbai. Twenty years after Bombay was officially renamed Mumbai, Hindu nationalist politicians are stepping up efforts to rid the city of the remnants of its British moniker ... “The Bombay High Court should be the Mumbai High Court ... “Mumbaikars” point out that Mumbai was the city’s original name while some “Bombayites” feel the name change was too closely associated with the Bombay riots of December 1992 and January 1993....

What's in a name? Mumbai 20 years on from Bombay

Edit Yahoo Daily News 13 Nov 2015
Twenty years after Bombay was officially renamed Mumbai, Hindu nationalist politicians in India are stepping up efforts to rid the city of the remnants of its British moniker ... A Short Biography of Bombay" ... "Mumbaikars" point out that Mumbai was the city's original name while some "Bombayites" feel the name change was too closely associated with the Bombay riots of December 1992 and January 1993....

Anytime is good for political satire: Shekhar Suman

Edit Deccan Herald 30 Sep 2015
"It's always a great time for political satire ... Both diametrically opposite at different spectrums but were interesting characters ... "Bas bas wahi to problem hai ... The actor had last year helmed Hindi film "Heartless" featuring his son Adhyayan and is soon to announce two other film projects - 'Bombay Dyeing' based on a love story in the backdrop of the 1993 Bombay riots while the other is also a love story with underworld background ... ....

Wear it with pride: Hijab now a choice

Edit The Times of India 21 Aug 2015
From Kolkata to Kochi, Bombay to Bangalore, more and more city-bred girls in their teens to thirties are "willingly" taking to the veil as an act of underlining their power to make a choice that challenges the stereotype of headscarf-wearing women ... "After the 1993 Bombay riots, girls were either giving up the hijab to blend in or dropping out of college....

Happy Birthday Manisha: 10 notable films of the actor

Edit Pinkvilla 15 Aug 2015
‘Yeh ILU ILU kya hai, yeh ILU ILU,” who can ever forget this iconic song. In the year 1991, Bollywood saw a fresh new face – Manisha Koirala ... Saudagar (1991) – Radha ... 1942. A Love Story (1994) – Rajeshwari Pathak ... Bombay (1995) – Shaila Bano. Set against the backdrop of religious tension that led to the Bombay Riots, Manisha played a Muslim girl, who elopes to marry a Hindu boy in Mani Ratnam’s Tamil film ... Khamoshi ... Dil Se (1998) – Meghna ... ....

‘An iron curtain on the freedom of thought’

Edit The Hindu 04 Aug 2015
Hers is a lonely voice. Yet, it crackles as she takes on the Narendra Modi government, ... Sahgal. Twist to history ... This “dangerous situation”, she says, has meant that while one man is hanged for the Bombay blasts, those responsible for the riots preceding them are walking scot-free ... Why just talk of Bombay blasts or Gujarat violence; let’s go back in time to the Bombay riots, to Babri Masjid, to the rath yatra of Advani....

The justice deficit

Edit Deccan Chronicle 03 Aug 2015
No talk of how the blasts that killed 257 were a response to the horrifying Bombay riots of 1992-93 that killed over 900. Or of the planned demolition of the Babri Masjid before the riots ... What about justice for the 900 dead in the same city just before that? Do their families not deserve closure? There have been only three convictions for the riots that killed so many and wounded thousands....

Justice should be an article of faith, and not its product

Edit The Times of India 02 Aug 2015
But the bombs they planted were part of a 'kriya pratikriya ki chain', or 'chain of action and reaction' which began with the Bombay riots — to invoke the phrase Narendra Modi would use nine ... But, as the Bombay riots and Bombay blasts, the Godhra fire and the Ahmedabad inferno show, Hindu terror and Muslim terror are twins and both are equally evil....
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