Bitter Harvest 3

DIONNE BUNSHA
in Amravati

Sheikh Bhura Sheikh Ramzan has set up his home under a tree this monsoon. He sold his house to pay his debts. “When it rains heavily, we sleep in the village school,” says Sheikh, a resident of Dhanora Fasi village in Amravati.

Even after selling the roof over his head and a third of his three-acre plot, Sheikh still has an outstanding debt of Rs 10,000 with the local moneylender.
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The wife of slain Member of Parliament Ahsan Jafri files a complaint against Narendra Modi and other top leaders for the pogrom of 2002.

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After all the hype and anti-Christian propaganda, the Shabari Kumbh Mela may have been a damp squib, with more outsiders ferried here for a day-out while fearful locals stayed home. But is this the start of a larger hate campaign?

Dionne Bunsha
In Dang, Gujarat
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Traditionally, India has four Kumbh Melas. The Sangh has just created a fifth in Dangs with the sole aim of scaring off Christian missionaries in the region.

Dionne Bunsha
In Dang
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Looking for a dead relative? Get your shovel. Uncover a mass grave. You may expose the cops’ cover-up —but you will be arrested.

DIONNE BUNSHA
In Lunawada and Ahmedabad
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Rejecting the police’s conspiracy theory, the Justice Banerjee Committee has called the Godhra tragedy “an accident”. But will it absolve an entire community that has been branded as terrorists?

DIONNE BUNSHA
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For the second time Zahira Sheikh, prime witness of the Best Bakery case, has turned hostile. And this, after appealing for a retrial. What is going on here?

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The Supreme Court directive to review more than 2,000 “true but undetected” cases in Gujarat is bound to expose police complicity.

DIONNE BUNSHA

Bilkis Yakub Rasul’s case was closed. The police said it was ‘true but undetected’. It was labelled what is called ‘A Summary’ in legal language, and shoved aside.
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