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Book Review:
=================== GUJARAT AFTER GODHRA =======================
Gujarat After Godhra :
Real Violence, Selective Outrage
edited by Ramesh N. Rao and Koenraad Elst.
New Delhi, Har-Anand Pub.,
2003, 248 p., $20.
ISBN 81-241-0917-6.
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Contents:
1. Introduction/Koenraad Elst.
2. Madam, will they be shamed by your blunt words?/S. Gurumurthy.
3. Without tinder, sparks are useless/Varsha Bhosle.
4. Blamming the Hindu victims: manufacturing consent for Barbarism/Rajeev Srinivasan.
5. Déjà vu, all over again/Varsha Bhosle.
6. Mass media coverage of the events in Gujarat/Ramesh N. Rao.
7. Whom to blame for Gujarat?/Balbir K. Punj.
8. A Gujarati’s road to rage/Aseem R. Shukla.
9. Promoting secularism by lies: admissions and confessions/S. Gurumurthy.
10. RSS: time to stop and take stock/Ramesh N. Rao.
11. Godhra lesson: secularists on the run?/N.S. Rajaram.
12. Godhra, ‘Secular’, ‘Progressives’ and politics/Rajeev Srinivasan. 13. Goodwill hunting/Rakesh Sinha.
14. ‘National Shame’ is not for premiers, Mr. Vajpayee/Arvind Lavakare. 15. Media and the riots/M.V. Kamath.
16. Of Sabarmati secularism and non-violence/Arvind Lavakare. 17. Has a Muslim’s prophecy come true?/Arvind Lavakare.
18. A law unto themselves/M. V. Kamath.
19. Truth in Gujarat/Balbir K. Punj.
20. People are not communal, our politics and ivory tower secularists are/Sumer Kaul.
21. Correspond to values/Francois Gautier.
22. Foreign missions: undiplomatic leaks/Poonam I. Kaushish.
23. Press, polity, people/Dasu Krishnamoorty.
24. Accusations gone Rancid, without remorse/Arvind Lavakare.
25. Milosevic-izing Modi/Ramesh N. Rao.
26. Gujarat Carnage: let the truth be told/M.V. Kamath.
27. Media hypocrisy and humbug/M.V. Kamath.
28. After the carnage: the predatory ‘Intelligentsia’/Rajeev Srinivasan.
29. Predatory intelligentsiaII/Rajeev Srinivasan.
30. The HRV Report on Gujarat: another assassination/Assem R. Shukla. 31. Politics by other means: an analysis of HRW Report on Gujarat/Arvin Bahl.
32. The Roys in the media are harming India with half-truths and worse/Balbir K. Punj.
33. Media role in riots/M.V. Kamath.
34. A left-right upper-cut to the RSS/Ramesh N. Rao.
35. A reply to Robert Hathaway/Koenraad Elst.
36. Concluding thoughts challenge your enemies, but take care to weed your garden/Ramesh N. Rao. Index.
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"This collection of essays has been put together for several reasons, the least of which is to rationalize the violence in Gujarat after the burning to death of 60 Hindus returning from a pilgrimage in the town of Godhra on February 27, 2002.
The book counters the mostly one-sided presentation of facts and analyses appearing in mainstream Indian English media, and the coordinated and orchestrated campaign against the BJP-led governments in Gujarat and at the center by vested interests.
This book also critically analyzes the international efforts at demonizing Hindu groups in Gujarat, as epitomized by the hurried report by Human Rights Watch.
"The contributors to the book are academics, journalists, doctors and students. Their essays reflect a range of opinions, critiques on media reports, and thoughtful analyses of the religious divide in India." (jacket)
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Dr. Koenraad Elst:
Dr. Koenraad Elst is a noted Indologist associated with Delhi based Indian think-tank, Voice of India (www.bharatvani.org).
While doing research in Indian philosophy at Benares Hindu University, he started taking an interest in the ongoing Rushdie and Ayodhya controversies and the larger debate on secularism. He published several books on the historical Ayodhya file. He earned his doctorate in 1998 at Catholic University Leuven with a dissertation on the Ideological development of Hindu nationalism.
Dr. Ramesh N. Rao:
Ramesh N. Rao is an associate professor of Communication
at Truman State University, Missouri, and serves on the Consultative Committee on Indic Traditions and Conflict Management at Columbia University. He has worked as a copy editor at The Hindu and received a Ph.D. from Michigan State University."
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