[nyfoil-l] 9/15 FRI, book talk: violence in Gujarat

[Todd Eaton]

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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:38:31 -0500 (EST)  From: mathew @ rider.edu
Subject: NYC EVENT: Fri 09/15: SCARRED: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat

SCARRED: EXPERIMENTS WITH VIOLENCE IN GUJARAT
A talk and book signing by Dionne Bunsha

Friday Sept 15 2006
7:00 PM
@ the Brecht Forum
451 West Street (@ Bank)
(Detailed directions below)

Dionne Bunsha is an acclaimed journalist whose fearless coverage of 
the 2002 pogrom in the Western Indian State of Gujarat brought her to 
national limelight. Her work has appeared in major national 
newspapers and magazines including the Hindu and Frontline. 
"Scarred..." is her first book and apart from being an excellent 
account of the conditions inside Gujarat four years after the 
genocide, is a sensitive and compelling reflection on the nature of 
State violence in todays world.

Even as the discourses and images of Islamic terror envelope us State 
terrorism in India remains a silent, unpunished crime. Survivors of 
Gujarat's communal pogrom in 2002 are still living in fear, 
struggling for justice against a government that instigated the 
attacks. Journalist Dionne Bunsha's book, SCARRED: Experiments with 
Violence in Gujarat (Penguin India), is about the communal pogrom in 
Gujarat 2002, its aftermath and life in the Hindu extremist party's 
model state. Her talk will place Gujarat's massacre in the context of 
earlier communal flare-ups in India. Why is Gujarat considered the 
Hindutva Laboratory, the Hindu right-wing's model state? Why are the 
thousands scarred by Gujarat's massacres still living in a state of 
terror? Bunsha's talk at the Brecht will be based on her book.

Praise for the Book:

It is unlikely that you can get anything better than Dionne Bunsha's 
account which is meticulous, moving, sensitive, thought-provoking... 
- THE HINDU, C.T. Kurien

Beautiful...Scarred is not dark, it is one assured step forward 
inside the darkness, to explore light.... Its straight-forward, 
honest to the core, a reporter's authentic notebook on the wounds 
that have refused to heal.
                                                 - TEHELKA, Amit Sengupta

The Author will have some books to sign

Open to all: $5/10/15 Sliding Scale. Nobody will be turned away.

For more information call the Brecht @ 212 242 4201 or send
email to
Biju @ mathew  @ rider.edu. For details on directions, go
to: http://www.brechtforum.org/%7Ewestbeth/gallery/pages/directions.php