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The Youngest Suspect

Peggy Mohan

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Description:A story set in 2002-2003 Gujarat. Political fiction. The publishers thought it was an idea whose time had come.From the lens of Peggy Mohan’s involvement in a POTA trial in Ahmedabad a story grows, one that gives her space to connect the dots and look at the things that had only been hinted at in the ‘confessions’. An imagined boy, Adil, a jailed suspect with eyes that saw it all. Godhra, the worst days of 2002, the insides of the police lock-up, Sabarmati Jail.People around him keep hope alive. Family. Lawyers. Civil society, partly driven by guilt. Women seeing a parallel between violence visited on a minority group and domestic violence. Believers who are not communal. Others who refuse to fall in with the goose-stepping crowd.This is a story seen in shots. A boy busy putting 2002 behind him when they come for him. A legal team in a back room using quantitative analysis to discredit POTA ‘confessions’. A distraught mother taking refuge in her ghazals. Comrades in jail protecting their youngest. And all around them a glittering new world of certainty, with a shadow side of doubt, stress and a need to hide.About the AuthorPeggy Mohan was born in Trinidad, West Indies. She has taught linguistics, made television programmes for children, been a cartoon animator, and has twice been an expert witness responsible for analyzing confessional statements in terrorism trials. She now teaches music at the Vasant Valley School, New Delhi.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Youngest Suspect. To get started finding The Youngest Suspect, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 248

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Harper Collins

Release: 2012

ISBN: 9350293838

Description: A story set in 2002-2003 Gujarat. Political fiction. The publishers thought it was an idea whose time had come.From the lens of Peggy Mohan’s involvement in a POTA trial in Ahmedabad a story grows, one that gives her space to connect the dots and look at the things that had only been hinted at in the ‘confessions’. An imagined boy, Adil, a jailed suspect with eyes that saw it all. Godhra, the worst days of 2002, the insides of the police lock-up, Sabarmati Jail.People around him keep hope alive. Family. Lawyers. Civil society, partly driven by guilt. Women seeing a parallel between violence visited on a minority group and domestic violence. Believers who are not communal. Others who refuse to fall in with the goose-stepping crowd.This is a story seen in shots. A boy busy putting 2002 behind him when they come for him. A legal team in a back room using quantitative analysis to discredit POTA ‘confessions’. A distraught mother taking refuge in her ghazals. Comrades in jail protecting their youngest. And all around them a glittering new world of certainty, with a shadow side of doubt, stress and a need to hide.About the AuthorPeggy Mohan was born in Trinidad, West Indies. She has taught linguistics, made television programmes for children, been a cartoon animator, and has twice been an expert witness responsible for analyzing confessional statements in terrorism trials. She now teaches music at the Vasant Valley School, New Delhi.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Youngest Suspect. To get started finding The Youngest Suspect, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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