SUN 29.5.2011 14:20-14:40, Amazon Stage, Railway Square

Harsh Mander is a well-known Indian Social Activist and Writer. His latest book Fear and Forgiveness: The Aftermath of Massacre is about the grim events of 2002 in Gujarat, where violent storms of engineered sectarian hatred broke out and raged for many months. 2.000 men, women and children, mostly from the Muslim community, were raped and murdered, and more than 200.000 people fled in terror as their homes and livelihoods were systematically destroyed. Mander’s book is also about acts of compassion and courage, of the hundreds who risked their own lives and those of their families and their homes to save the innocents. Harsh Mander heads Aman Biradari, a people’s campaign that works for legal justice and reconciliation for the survivors of the Gujarat 2002 carnage.