Op-eds in Other Media
Op-eds by CJP core team in other publications.
Citizens for Justice and Peace
Gujarat riots: The journey of the Zakia Jafri case The Telegraph
18-Nov-2018
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up on November 19 (Monday) a petition filed by Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain former MP Ahsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit given to Narendra Modi, the then chief minister, and others by a special investigation team (SIT) in a massacre during the riots of 2002 in…
Zakia Jafri’s Case is a Reminder of How the Guilty of Gujarat Subverted the Law The Wire
18-Nov-2018
On Monday, the Supreme Court will consider her appeal against the closure report of the SIT – which ignored all evidence to the contrary and decided the large-scale violence in the state was not the product of a criminal conspiracy. “Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the…
When The Dissenting Voice Speaks For Democracy News Central 24x7
01-Oct-2018
Today, we have to accept that the wise words in Justice Chandruchud’s dissenting judgement were a minority verdict. The battle is still on. An interesting study into the way the political wind blows, especially with relation to fundamental freedoms in a democracy where we speak of elections for the people, by the people and of the…
Does India’s Far-Right Government Officially Approve of Lynching As a Political Tool? Alternet
27-Jul-2018
Most of the victims are Muslim. Most Americans, one hopes, would today feel deeply ashamed and embarrassed by a dark chapter in their history. Perhaps even a white supremacist might today flinch at the mention of the word lynch. It’s what the White Man frequently did to the Black Man in “the land of the…
Shekhar Gupta omits role of Hindutva forces in Bombay violence while criticising Sanju The Print
07-Jul-2018
His hypocrisy has not just crept into the Indian political marketplace, but has been legitimised by policy makers and journalists. Many things went seriously wrong with India’s polity and governance during that dark winter of December 1992-January 1993, and the March 12 serial blasts, which killed close to 250 people, were the final diabolical culmination. Evil, sinister…
A Candle for Ankit ... and his lost love and a flickering secularism. A worrying silence echoes in the public sphere.
08-Feb-2018
It was an act of violence and terror, albeit of a critically different kind. When 23-year-old Ankit Saxena’s throat was slit after an altercation with the family members of his childhood sweetheart a few days ago, while the usual suspects of the BJP, Manoj Tiwari, and the Bajrang Dal swung into pre-scripted, hate-driven action, a…
Gory Winter: Bombay Riots of 1992-93 Frontline
02-Feb-2018
ombay in December 1992-January 93 was Hindu Rashtra in action. By TEESTA SETALVAD THE fault lines were sharp and deep in that December of 1992 when for nine days theurbs prima of India, hailed for its cosmopolitanism, saw this veneer shredded. Painfully. All of December, including the week of Christmas and New Year celebrations, public temper…
The Importance of the Zakia Jafri Petition Economic and Political Weekly
25-May-2013
It is not often that the battle against aggressive communalism, the sustained mobilization that precedes brute and targeted violence and includes hate speech and hate writing, the deliberate debilitation and paralysis of preventive and pro active measures of law and order that minimize the spread of reprisal violence and protect lives and properties, gets sustained…
The end of impunity The Indian Express
02-Mar-2010
It was not simply the number of lives lost, though the number, perhaps 2,500, is not insignificant. The struggle of man (or woman) against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera It was not simply the number of lives lost, though the number, perhaps 2,500 is not insignificant. It was…