“It is the first time in our lifetime that we have come to Gujarat, walking 280 kms from our village with our livestock”, says Virambhai from Khengarpur village in the Lakhpat Tehsil of Kutch district in Gujarat. He has migrated to Maliya block in Morbi…
Invincibility myth broken in Gujarat, game wide open for 2019 | Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Gujarat’s much awaited results are out. The fraudsters sitting in the mega ‘slaughterhouses’ have been exposed and myth related to invincibility…
Undermining Nehru to Glorify Patel
From last few years, around 31st October lot of statements from BJP stable have started coming which eulogize Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. This year (October…
Caste and the illusion of Samajik Samrasta
Jayesh Solanki from Bhadraniya, Gujarat was killed by members of upper caste in early October because Jayesh wanted to witness garba organized by the upper caste. His head was brutally banged against a wall (The Hindu, 2017). Jayesh Solanki was a Dalit. Jayesh…
Fact finding report on Una, Gujarat
This report is presented by People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Gujarat to National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi and is released by Ms. Manjula Pradeep, Executive Director of Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat (Chairperson of the fact-finding team) and…
Dalits in Gujarat- A picture of inequality and violence
On 11th July, seven members of a Dalit family were beaten up by manav bhakshaks-cum-extortionists representing themselves as gau rakshaks in Una town of Gujarat. They were mercilessly beaten up with iron pipes, knife and sticks for skinning a dead cow in…
Gulbarg Society Carnage: Who Cast the First Stone?
Communal violence is the big bane of Indian society. While on one hand the innocents are killed the guilty mostly get away without any punishment. The rate of prosecution of riot cases is very low. Even where punishments are meted out the big fish are let…
Too little too late: The Gulberg society judgment
On 2nd June 2016, judgment on the Gulberg case was pronounced, in which, out of 66 accused, the special designated court convicted 24 and acquitted 36 of the accused. The Gulberg massacre had claimed 69 lives during the 2002 pogrom which took in various places…
Condemn deaths in police firing & crackdown on protesters seeking reservation
We condemn the deaths in police firing as well as police crackdown on protesters seeking reservation benefits for Patel. The recent, unfortunate incidents across Gujarat only points out how misleading has been the so-called “Government of Gujarat’s Model…
Saluting Courage: Memorial for Vasant & Rajab
Gujarat violence (2002) was horrific. In this, after the burning of train in Godhra in which 58 innocents died, the same tragedy was made the pretext to launch the massive violence in which over one thousand people perished. In the aftermath of that I got…