A series of programmes around the Gujarat Genocide on Jamia campus

By TCN News,

New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia and ‘Citizens for Justice and Peace’ are jointly organizing a series of programmes around “Memorial to a Genocide: Gulberg Gujarat 2002-2012” from October 9-13, 2012 on Jamia campus.


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Programmes include a photo retrospective, statistics, missing person’s wall, acknowledgements and survivor’s conversations among other things.

The programme begins today with the inauguration of the ‘Memorial as Resistance’ by Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University. The inaugural event will begin at 6 p.m. at the M.F. Hussain Art Gallery of the University.

This will be followed by a panel discussion to be held at the same venue where Prof. Romila Thapar will be joined by Prof. Shiv Vishwanathan, Prof. Purushottam Agarwal, Prof. Francis Gonsalves.

Latter in the evening, musical performances by Vidya Shah Rao and Madan Gopal Singh will be held in ‘memorium’ at Safdar Hashmi Ampitheatre.

Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia will inaugurate a Seminar Workshop titled “In Pursuit of Justice: Media and the Law” which will be held on October 12, 2012 at 9.30 AM in the Edward Said Hall of the university.

In the first Panel Discussion, which will be on, “Justice for Mass Crimes”, the panelists include MM Tirmizi, Y.B. Shaikh, RB Sreekumar (former DGP Gujarat), Harsh Mander, Aruna Roy and Anuradha Chenoy. Prof. Prabhat Patnaik will chair this session.

The second Panel Discussion will be on “Media and Mass Crimes.” The discussants are – Prof. Dipankar Gupta, Ashish Khetan, Siddharth Vardarajan, Kamal Mitra Chenoy. Vinod Mehta, advisor of the Outlook magazine will chair this session.

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