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*City Conversations, Urban Aspirations in Global Cities* invite you to a panel discussion titled *Violence and Memory: Mumbai 1992-93 and After* with Meena Menon and Jyoti Punwani Date: 25 July 2012 Time: 10.30 a.m. To 1 p.m. Place: Room 4, Main Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. *About the Discussion:* Jyoti Punwani and Meena Menon will discuss the city of Bombay/Mumbai in the wake of the violence that transformed it - for those who have lived here and for those who saw it from different parts of the country. Drawing on their considerable work in the area, they will address questions around the construction of memory, of the quest for justice and the changes wrought in the city. *About the Panelists: * *Meena Menon* is deputy editor with The Hindu, Mumbai. She has been a journalist since 1984 and has worked with the United News of India, Mid-day and The Times of India. Her book "Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation" has been published by Sage in January 2012. She has co-authored with Sharmila Joshi “The Unseen Worker- On the Trail of the Girl Child (1998) published by Books for Change. Her book titled “Organic Cotton - Reinventing the Wheel” was published in 2004 by Deccan Development Society and Kalpavriksh. She has received fellowships from the National Foundation of India, Centre for Science and Environment, Panos, London and SARAI-CSDS. She writes on politics and development issues including environment, women, human rights and health. *Jyoti Punwani* is a freelance journalist with 38 years of experience. She has worked with various publications including Eve's Weekly, Free press Journal, the Sunday Observer, the Indian Post and the Independent. She specialises in covering human rights, women's rights and minority rights issues and prominently covered the Mumbai 1984 and 92-93 riots and their aftermath, as well as the Srikrishna Commission hearings. She also reported extensively on the riots in Indore and Hyderabad in the wake of L.K. Advani's *Rath Yatra*. When the government refused to table the Srikrishna Commission Report in 1998, she brought out a booklet on the testimonies of witnesses before the Commission, called ‘Witnesses Speak’. Also, when the government refused to print more than the minimum number of copies of the Commission Report, she and Prof. Vrijendra jointly published copies of the report. She has also published booklets on the State's refusal to act on the Commission Report, called “The Srikrishna Report- Too Hot to Handle”. She has assiduously followed the fallout of the riots, riot cases and victims' lives ever since. After the Gujarat violence in 2002, she investigated the Godhra train burning and brought out a booklet called “Dateline- Godhra”, which included interviews of the survivors of the Sabarmati Express and has been tracking the verdicts delivered in the case very closely. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
