Apr
22
Geography of Hatred
April 22, 2004 | 1 Comment
In “Geography of Hatred,” Patwant Singh warns India that its existence is in peril, for its failure to engage in introspection after the pogroms against Sikhs in 1984 and the impunity granted to the perpetrators of the carnage. He states that there will be a heavy price to pay for these failures: I wrote of [...]
Apr
22
Gujarat Government Files Application in Response to Best Bakery Order
April 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment
The Gujarat government filed an application on Monday in response to the Supreme Court’s order in the Best Bakery case that ordered the retrial of the case outside of Gujarat. The government claimed that key witness Zahira Sheikh had never asked for the transfer of the trial from Gujarat: Claiming, inaccurately, that ‘‘no material was [...]