13 December, a Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament

by Arundhati Roy

On 13 december 2001, the indian parliament was attacked by five - some say six - heavily armed men five years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers both the delhi high court and the supreme court have noted that the police violated legal safeguards, fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions yet one man, mohammad afzal, has been sentenced to death by hanging, to satisfy the collective conscience of society this reader brings together fifteen essays by lawyers, academics, journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and raise serious questions about the investigations and the trial they show how there is hardly a single piece of evidence that stands up to scrutiny, and emphasize the urgent need for an impartial, transparent inquiry into the - parliament attack and its aftermath

Genres: Nonfiction, India

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.

For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.

Reviews

[Jaimit Doshi · Rating 3 out of 5]

an eye opener. u will learn on how informed on uninfirmed the media is.... and the state of governance and law in india