The Fiction of Fact Finding: Modi and Godhra

No instance of communal violence has provoked as much controversy as the Gujarat

2002 carnage in which over 1000 people mostly Muslims were killed. And none has been subjected to as much fact-finding. Yet as this book demonstrates the fact-finding -- riddled with ambiguities and deceptions gaps and contradictions -- glossed over crucial p...

Manoj Mitta is a senior editor with The Times of India writing on legal human rights and public policy issues. In 2007 he co-authored When a Tree Shook Delhi a critically acclaimed book on fact-finding done by official agencies in the wake of the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage. A law graduate from Hyderabad Mitta worked earlier with The Indian Express and India Today. He is a patron of 'Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Judicial Reforms' a civil society watchdog and is on the advisory board of Amnesty International India and in the governing body of Foundation for Media Professionals. Married with two children he lives in Noida.