Topic: Gujarat genocide

The Gujarat High Court on Monday acquitted three men convicted in 2006 for rioting during the 2002 Muslim genocide, citing the absence of a Test Identification Parade and expressing doubt over the reliability of dock identification, Live Law reported.

This book has very closely analysed Gujarat politics by considering the impact of other factors such as culture and identity, caste equations, industrialization, and more importantly its political history and its role in breeding Hindutva politics in the state, which later proved to be a laboratory of today’s India under the aegis of current Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi.

The makers of L2: Empuraan, starring Mohanlal, which has been subjected to a hate campaign by Hindutva groups over its depiction of the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, have made 24 cuts to the film, which is already in theaters and has collected over ₹200 crore in just five days.

Following a massive hate campaign by Hindutva social media handles, Sangh Parivar leaders, and right-wing mouthpieces over the portrayal of the Gujarat Muslim genocide and the Naroda Patiya massacre, the producers of the superhit film starring Mohanlal, L2: Empuraan, have reportedly instructed the filmmaker to remove the Gujarat genocide scenes.

l2:%20Empuraan,%20the%20most%20hyped%20Malayalam%20film%20ever,%20has%20also%20sparked%20fierce%20hate%20campaigns%20from%20Hindu%20right-wing%20handles,%20who%20find%20its%20perceived%20political%20undertones%20difficult%20to%20digest.

Twenty-two years later, Zara Chowdhary will write a memoir of her life and that of her family during those three months and several others preceding them. She will name it “The Lucky Ones”, indicative of the survival her family made, while the unlucky ones made into numbers in government records and eventually into unmarked graves.