Women's Feature Service, April 22nd, 2002
New Delhi, (WFS) -- Condemnation of the on-going attacks on Muslims of Gujarat in the English press has been swift and unequivocal, but denunciation alone will not help us to understand why such a sophisticated and gruesome attack on Gujarat's Muslims could take place.
Though non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Gujarat have worked with weaker communities over a period of time, a sense of egalitarianism is not a political principle that the savarnas (upper castes) have embraced.
Since Ahmedabad's first major communal riots in the last century (in 1969), Hindus and Muslims opted to live i...
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