2002 Gujarat Riots: Revisiting the Event Which Reconfigured India's Politics

In this episode of Where Were You When, we revisit the 2002 Gujarat Riots. Tune in!

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(This story was first published on 17 June 2022. It has been reposted from The Quint's archives to mark 22 years since the Godhra train burning incident.)

Where were you on 27 February 2002, as India witnessed one of its bloodiest Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat over three days prompted by the burning of a train in Godhra?

Twenty years since the Gujarat riots, which led to at least a thousand deaths officially, there are still many questions – and elusive answers – about how a large-scale massacre could take place over a span of three days.

Who started the fire in coach S-6 of Sabarmati Express? Was the state complicit in the violence that followed?

In this episode of Where Were You When, we revisit the event. Tune in!