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Gujarat In Tehelka

In the past few years, Gujarat has rarely stayed out of the news, and mostly for the wrong reasons. A selection of the major stories carried by Tehelka on Gujarat, including past sting operations and exclusive investigations.

Modi Can’t Keep Them Threaded
Dissent against the chief minister is getting shriller the nearer Gujarat draws to polls. Darshan Desai reads the signs

Expose: Death By Firing Squad
Yes, that still happens. in democratic, 21st-century India. Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja unravel the chilling story of the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi by top Gujarat policemen and their bid to cover up the crime

Fake Killings: Unwritten State Policy
In Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, the cold-blooded murder of Sohrabuddin and his wife was no aberration. A TEHELKA investigation into the killing of another youth, Sameer Khan, lays bare the mammoth cover-up crafted by Modi’s own office. Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja unravel the web of lies woven around the gunning down of Khan at point-blank range

Expose: The Buying Of Zaheera Sheikh
The Best Bakery trial, which had become symbolic of the quest for justice in Gujarat, has also taken the most exasperating twists over the last couple of years, continually threatening to thwart the truth. In a painstaking month-long investigation, TEHELKA reporter Ashish Khetan blows the lid off the sordid story.

“I Paid Zaheera Sheikh Rs 18 Lakh”
A TEHELKA Sting Reveals Why The Prime Witness Keeps Changing Her Stand

Pandya Puzzle: Many Leads, No Takers
The probe into the murder of Haren Pandya closed in just six months. But, as the POTA trial against 18 men progresses, too many doubts have arisen about the prosecution’s case. Sankarshan Thakur investigates

The Anatomy of a Hindutva Lab: ‘Missing’ Show up in Lunawada Grave
Mahesh Langa shadows families of victims of the Pandarwada massacre and discovers that their steely resolve to hunt for the bodies, recently unearthed in Lunawada, might just rekindle hope for others

In The Virile God's Graveyard
Apoorvanand spent a week taking measure of Narendra Modi’s Gujarat five years after the horror.

The Degeneration of Gujarat’s Sanskarnagari
Once a centre of culture and education, Vadodara today is a shadow of its former self, reports Mahesh Langa

A Journey in Three Acts
Two young travellers look for hope in ravaged Gujarat. They find it in the sublime silences of spiritual unity which still celebrate healing and love. Text by Manasa Patnam. Pictures by Sahir Raza.

Nov 03, 2007

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