Announcement: Press Conference on Muzaffarnagar by CPA on 6 Dec 2013, New Delhi

The CPA Fact Finding team recently visited Muzaffarnagar for the second time since the violence broke out to see the current situation. The team comprised Kamal Chenoy, Harsh Mander, E. N. Rammohan, Sukumar Muralidharan, John Dayal and Seema Mustafa. Earlier, the team visited Muzaffarnagar on September 14 to look into the genesis of the violence there and the reasons for its spread.
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Meena Menon reviews 'RIOT POLITICS — Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State'

The Hindu
Books » Reviews
November 26, 2013

The network that influences polls and politics

Meena Menon

RIOT POLITICS — Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State: Ward Berenschot; Rainlight, 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002. Rs. 495.


Towards the end of his book Ward Berenschot writes that riots provide politicians with an occasion to prove their usefulness to prospective voters

India: Rehabilitate UP riot victims for meaningful normalcy, says AB Bardhan

Economic Times

Rehabilitate UP riot victims for meaningful normalcy, says AB Bardhan
PTI Nov 6, 2013, 04.57PM IST


ALIGARH: Senior CPI leader A B Bardhan today said that no meaningful normalcy can be achieved in the riot-hit districts of western Uttar Pradesh till the victims are fully rehabilitated and return to their original homes.

"There can be no meaningful normalcy in the riot-affected

India: ISangh Parivar and Communal Riots by Irfan Engineer

http://www.sacw.net/article5955.html

Yet another doctored riot - Harsh Mander

Communal organisations have perfected the art of manufacturing hatred
against the ‘other’ community by cynically deploying rumour, innuendo
and falsehood. The issue chosen to demonise the ‘other’ varies based on
what would resonate and enrage most. In Partition, pork was thrown into
mosques and beef into temples; later riots are spurred by rumours of cow
slaughter, support to terror, and

Muzaffarnagar - A case of ’Institutionalised Riot Systems’ | Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

If one goes through majority of the mainstream media reports on the Muzaffarnagar riots, which displaced nearly 40000 Muslims and killed at least 50, the most important discourse that emerges is one of ‘administrative failure.’ Most reports rallied behind the notion that the riots could have been prevented if not for the state government’s laxity and delay in deploying troops in and around the

India: Fact Finding Report on Muzaffarnagar Riots released by Anhad

Evil Stalks the Land: Fact Finding Report on Muzaffarnagar Riots

24 September 2013

A team of 24 activists, journalists, lawyers and students visited several relief camps and villages in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Ghaziabad districts of Uttar Pradesh on September 22 - 23 September, 2013. We met hundreds of victims, scores of relief camp committee members; spoke to people in general on the dhabas

India: Media Invite for Release of Fact Finding report on Muzaffarnagar violence. (17 Sept 2013, New Delhi)

The Centre for Policy Analysis took a Fact Finding team of six eminent persons to Muzaffarnagar on September 14 (Saturday) to look into the genesis of the violence there and the reasons for its spread.

The team included Kamal Chenoy, Harsh Mander, E. N. Rammohan, Sukumar Muralidharan, John Dayal and Seema Mustafa.

CPA will release the report of the team at a press conference on September 17 (

India: Sense of A Riot (Panini Anand's report in Outlook)

Outlook Magazine





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