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Undercover : my journey into the darkness of Hindutva / Ashish Khetan

By: Khetan, AshishContributor(s): Khetan, AshishMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Westland Publication Pvt. Ltd. | :No 4/249 -A, Poonamallee High Road Goparasanallur, Kattupakkam Chennai Publication details: Chennai : Context, an imprint of Westland Publications Private Limited , 2021Description: xxi, 309 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9789389152517Subject(s): Social Sciences | Social Processes | Pogroms -- India -- Gujarat | Communalism -- India -- Gujarat | Muslims -- Violence against -- India -- Gujarat | Hinduism and politicsDDC classification: 303.623 KHE

Contents:

A sting in the tale -- Theatre of masculinity -- The ten-foot-tall officer -- Painting with fire -- Alone in the dark -- Truth on trial -- Conspirators and rioters -- The Gulbarg massacre -- The killing fields -- The salient feature of a genocidal ideology -- The artful taker -- The smoking gun -- Drum rolls of an impending massacre -- The Godhra conundrum -- Tendulkar's 100 vs. Amit Shah's 267 -- Walk alone.

Summary: "Ashish Khetan went undercover in Gujarat thrice in four years. He penetrated deep into the world of Hindutva and uncovered a hate-filled universe, where stories of rape and murder are exchanged over a cup of tea. Each time he returned with reports that shook the country to its core. Equipped with cameras small enough to be clipped to a button on his shirt, Khetan secretly filmed men close to the corridors of power or indeed in them admitting to mind-numbing venality during the Gujarat riots of 2002. The men he filmed said the riots could not have happened without the implicit, sometimes explicit, support of the state government. His investigations led to the conviction of Babu Bajrangi, his close aides and Maya Kodnaní, and in the Best Bakery case, he proved that the defence had bribed Zahira Sheikh to turn hostile.... As he recounts the course of the three investigations, and the long, frustrating legal processes that followed, Khetan fills in the gaps in the Gujarat-model narrative. He also reminds us that this is not the story of something that happened nearly two-decades ago, it is a portrait of the present and future of India. The Gujarat playbook is now the India playbook"--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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A sting in the tale --
Theatre of masculinity --
The ten-foot-tall officer --
Painting with fire --
Alone in the dark --
Truth on trial --
Conspirators and rioters --
The Gulbarg massacre --
The killing fields --
The salient feature of a genocidal ideology --
The artful taker --
The smoking gun --
Drum rolls of an impending massacre --
The Godhra conundrum --
Tendulkar's 100 vs. Amit Shah's 267 --
Walk alone.

"Ashish Khetan went undercover in Gujarat thrice in four years. He penetrated deep into the world of Hindutva and uncovered a hate-filled universe, where stories of rape and murder are exchanged over a cup of tea. Each time he returned with reports that shook the country to its core. Equipped with cameras small enough to be clipped to a button on his shirt, Khetan secretly filmed men close to the corridors of power or indeed in them admitting to mind-numbing venality during the Gujarat riots of 2002. The men he filmed said the riots could not have happened without the implicit, sometimes explicit, support of the state government. His investigations led to the conviction of Babu Bajrangi, his close aides and Maya Kodnaní, and in the Best Bakery case, he proved that the defence had bribed Zahira Sheikh to turn hostile.... As he recounts the course of the three investigations, and the long, frustrating legal processes that followed, Khetan fills in the gaps in the Gujarat-model narrative. He also reminds us that this is not the story of something that happened nearly two-decades ago, it is a portrait of the present and future of India. The Gujarat playbook is now the India playbook"--Back cover.

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