Sreenivasan Jain With Inputs From Tanima Biswas
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Truth vs Hype: 1984 Riots - Political complicity, aborted justice
Rahul Gandhi's claim that in 1984, Congress government protected the Sikhs, has reopened old wounds. Evidence, however, suggests how the regime of the day was not just complicit in the violence, but made every attempt to suppress justice for over three decades.
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Muzaffarnagar: Witnesses unsafe, as riot accused roam free
Their refugee camp shut down, we meet we meet Imran and Ilyas, in a house in the town of Shahpur. They are from Kutba village, where eight people were killed, and are crucial witnesses to a weekend of horrific violence in early September last year.
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The Mystery of Kawwal: Were Muzaffarnagar riots based on distortion of facts?
The reasons ascribed to justify the killing of Shahnawaz (and by default the riots that followed) -- the supposed protection of the honour of Jat women -- are not borne out by the facts.
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Muzaffarnagar riots: in the violence, signs of careful political design
The village of Fugana, like so many in the sugarcane belt of Western Uttar Pradesh, has been prosperous, but for the most part, it was a quiet one, with few flashpoints between the Hindu Jats who form the majority and a few hundred Muslim families, who work their fields. The white-hot signs of how that changed this weekend are everywhere today - in...
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Muzaffarnagar riots: a meeting after Friday prayers exploited by politicians
The prelude to the riots that have ripped through Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh killing 38 people unfolded in the village of Kawal, where in the last week of August, two Jat brothers killed a Muslim boy who was stalking their sister. Less than an hour later, they were lynched to death.
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Muzaffarnagar clashes: The violent countryside
The army's show of strength through the deserted streets of Muzaffarnagar town has helped ensure a tense and uneasy calm.
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Truth vs Hype: The 'Talented' Robert Vadra
Robert Vadra is back in the headlines after a report by Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka found multiple violations in land deals by Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law. Those in defence of Mr Vadra claim there was nothing illegal about these deals.
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Truth vs Hype: 1984 Riots - Political complicity, aborted justice
Rahul Gandhi's claim that in 1984, Congress government protected the Sikhs, has reopened old wounds. Evidence, however, suggests how the regime of the day was not just complicit in the violence, but made every attempt to suppress justice for over three decades.
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Muzaffarnagar: Witnesses unsafe, as riot accused roam free
Their refugee camp shut down, we meet we meet Imran and Ilyas, in a house in the town of Shahpur. They are from Kutba village, where eight people were killed, and are crucial witnesses to a weekend of horrific violence in early September last year.
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The Mystery of Kawwal: Were Muzaffarnagar riots based on distortion of facts?
The reasons ascribed to justify the killing of Shahnawaz (and by default the riots that followed) -- the supposed protection of the honour of Jat women -- are not borne out by the facts.
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Muzaffarnagar riots: in the violence, signs of careful political design
The village of Fugana, like so many in the sugarcane belt of Western Uttar Pradesh, has been prosperous, but for the most part, it was a quiet one, with few flashpoints between the Hindu Jats who form the majority and a few hundred Muslim families, who work their fields. The white-hot signs of how that changed this weekend are everywhere today - in...
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Muzaffarnagar riots: a meeting after Friday prayers exploited by politicians
The prelude to the riots that have ripped through Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh killing 38 people unfolded in the village of Kawal, where in the last week of August, two Jat brothers killed a Muslim boy who was stalking their sister. Less than an hour later, they were lynched to death.
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Muzaffarnagar clashes: The violent countryside
The army's show of strength through the deserted streets of Muzaffarnagar town has helped ensure a tense and uneasy calm.
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Truth vs Hype: The 'Talented' Robert Vadra
Robert Vadra is back in the headlines after a report by Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka found multiple violations in land deals by Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law. Those in defence of Mr Vadra claim there was nothing illegal about these deals.
