India: ‘Gujarat riots did not happen all of a sudden’ - from Teesta Setalvad’s discussion on her memoir

The Hindu

‘Gujarat riots did not happen all of a sudden’
  Soumya Pillai New Delhi March 07, 2017

Days after Oxford Bookstore in central Delhi’s Connaught Place cancelled human rights activist Teesta Setalvad’s discussion on her memoir, ‘The Foot Soldier of the Constitution’, the programme was conducted at the Press Club of India on Monday.
“I don’t want to talk much about the cancellation of the venue. Maybe there was some pressure,” said Ms. Setalvad.
The discussion started with the three major communal riots that she has elaborated in her book —1984 Bhiwadi riots, 1992 Ayodhya riots, and 2002 Gujarat riots — her continuing fight for the victims, and the consequences of going head-to-head with the RSS ideology. [. . .]

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