Santosh Helekar writes: I have no obligation to accept what U. G. Barad claims to be the official estimate. There are many "official" estimates, each one different from the other and from Barad's "official" estimate. I for one is using the estimate of Human Rights Watch given in the following quote from 2012.
I do not wish to thrust the estimates made by the Government of India and Government of Gujarat on anyone. Simultaneously I presume that Santosh does not wish to thrust the estimates of the Human Rights Watch on anyone. But let us first look only to figures! The victims of the riots have been given financial assistance to try and reduce the impact on their families. The government figures are based on the number of people to whom this assistance has been given. If we are to accept the HRW figures, then obviously a large number (around 800) of families of the victims have not received the assistance. Should not organizations like HRW devote their boundless energies of taking up their cases with the government and ensure that at least some justice is done to them? I find the behavior of organizations like HRW to be very strange! Regarding Narendra Modis culpability. Perhaps Santosh would like to read these two articles: http://www.manushi.in/articles.php?articleId=1685&ptype=&pgno=1 http://www.manushi.in/articles.php?articleId=1688&ptype= Best regards, U. G. Barad
