Folowup of "The truth - Gujarat2002" Special issue from Tehelka

IT’S BEEN an instructive week at TEHELKA. Intensely. The politicians have been eerily silent. Or disturbingly evasive. The people have spoken. In reams and cascades. On e-mail, through SMS, through letters and on phone. It’s been a task this past week manning the floodgates; as we went to press, the response was still streaming in. Congratulation. Outrage. Concern. Even abuse. No matter what you do, it’s foolhardy not to expect abuse in India.

But we have been clear why the truth of Gujarat 2002 had to be told — it’s about where we have fundamentally erred as a people and a nation, it’s about critical and urgent lessons we need to learn. That is why we called it the most important story of our time. Hearteningly, the preponderant response to the story has affirmed that sense. Something deeply violative and vile happened in Gujarat. And it awaits correction — punishment to the guilty, justice to the victims. That’s the call that rings again and again through these letters. Over to them.

From Tehelka Magazine Issue 44, Dated Nov 17, 2007

'Take the Tapes as Prima Facie Evidence’
Zakia Jafri Fights On
‘I Know Men in the Gulbarg Mob’

‘A Test Case for the Indian State’
The Evidence Won’t Go Away

Tarred with the Same Brush

We, the People,the Bystanders

Storming the Fortress of Impunity

India Overseas Outraged

Religious Leaders Decry Hate Politics

Voice from the Past?

You’re the Majority — So What?

Well Known, Yet Still a Shock

Expected Better, BJP

For My Brothers, Hindu, Muslim

The Sabarmati Weeps

Options for the Supreme Court

Do Something. Come Together

Out of Gujarat, Its Other Voices

Enforce the Rule of Law. Now

‘Mr PM, Millions Have Put Their Trust in You’

A Landslide Win for Mass Murder?

Assault on Pluralism

Someone Blow These Myths

Wages of Mob Politics

No Takers for Art on the Riots

‘A Blot on the Very Core of Civil Society’

What About the Banerjee Commission?