Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat

By Dionne Bunsha and Dashka Slater

Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat asserts the existence of a much larger politics of violence, and tells the story of a disaster in Hindutvas laboratory which etched deep faults in Gujarats social landscape.While capturing the predicament of the Sabarmati Express survivors, Scarred is an intense, moving portrait of refugees whose lives have been changed forever by the violence that followed. It tells the story of people fighting for justice amidst fear and turmoil, unable to return home. It is also an insightful look into the minds of the perpetrators of this violence, and the world they seek to constructa world where the ghettoization and socio-economic boycott of Muslims have become the norm.What exactly happened in Gujarat in February 2002? Why did the countrys political leaders fiddle while Gandhis Gujarat burned? In this honest and thought-provoking book, Dionne Bunsha tries to answer these and many of the questions that we are still left with.Read more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0144000768
• ISBN13: 9780144000760
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher