By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, Sept 2, 2022: Gujarat Carnage (2002) was one of the major acts of anti -minority violence. It was a catastrophe which took the degree of violence, hate and ghettoization to higher degree. Much before the violence the term, “Gujarat: Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra” was well popularized.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, Aug 27, 2022: A powerful citizen’s movement in Varanasi has come to the streets demanding justice to Bilkis Bano, a rape survivor of the 2002 communal riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The Sajha Sanskriti Manch (SSM, United Forum for Cultural Diversity), networkContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 26, 2022: A few days ago, I met a small group of priests and nuns. I just asked them a question, “Are you aware of the Bilkis Bano’s case?” Surprisingly none could give me an answer. Taking this as an example, I can concludeContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Panaji, August 26, 2022: Church groups joined civil society organizations in Goa to express solidarity with the victims of sexual assault such as Bilkis Bano of Gujarat. The August 24 meeting in Panaji, the state capital, condemned the premature release of rapists and murderers of theContinue Reading
Jyoti Singh and Bilkis Bano were brutalized and gangraped. What happened to them holds a mirror to the darker side of our societyContinue Reading