I asked Syeda if it would be better to forget it all, to not speak about the many riots she has survived. “No, we should remember it,” she replied. “We should be able to tell our children the stories, so they will know how to protect themselves.”

Poorna Swami on the riots that changed the course of Gujarat’s political history: https://bit.ly/2kQsWz0

Riots that changed the course of Gujarat’s political history

The 1969 riots emerged as a kind of beginning—of intense religious division, a culture of violence, and the early rise of Hindutva in Gujarat.