![]() ![]() ![]() I am sure that’s not what the vice-chancellor of a prominent university was aiming to do, even if it happens to be an opportunity to be in the good books of the regime. By targeting the narrator, we kill the story. ![]() It is imperative that we respect this documentation, and listen to the white, black or brown man who is telling that story. Before we decide whether it’s valid or not, let us first establish what it wants us to hear. Documentaries like the one in question are a documentation of the event. It’s like those unmarked graves that harbour the corpses of the murdered but without proof of the culpability of the perpetrator. This landscape is full of unmarked allegations and assertions as well as untold truth. What Dr Mansoor has clearly missed in his piece is the moral landscape which stretches in the storytelling of mass killings. Shashi Shekhar Vempati writes | Shashi Shekhar Vempati writes: The BBC’s documentary on Narendra Modi and Gujarat riots questions integrity of India’s institutions ![]()
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