Breaking the Silence

(unravelling the evidence 2) sounds of silence....

Even before the state government disbanded the Srikrishna Commission, the mainstream media had started abandoning coverage of the Commission’s proceedings while coverage of the trial into the serial bomb blasts (March 1993) received front page attention. Communalism Combat, in August-September 1994 explored this selective amnesia  -- cover story Sounds of Silence – after which some coverage of the Commission’s proceedings resumed. This privileging of one set of human tragedies over another has been compounded with the deliverance of discriminatory justice. While those guilty of the gruesome blasts have been punished, none of those guilty of the largely anti-minority pogrom of December 1992-January 1993 have been punished.

In the twentieth year of the violence, May 2012, Meena Menon senior journalist and author released her book, Riots and After in Mumbai that is a detailed narrative of the survivors.

Lasting peace and reconciliation between communities seems to evade Mumbai as we have collectively failed to reclaim the space captured by the aggressor.