India, March 16 -- It's been 32 years, but photojournalist Sherwin Crasto still trembles recalling the violence that rocked Bombay during the 1992 riots and 1993 bomb blasts. As a photographer for a newspaper ('The Independent'), he saw the death and destruction all around - a history captured on film, for all to see and remember in the future. On Saturday, keeping that last promise, an exhibition of 44 photographs taken by 14 of the city's top photojournalists, titled 'Forty four thousand words' was inaugurated at the Mumbai Press Club.

"A train had arrived from Gujarat. Just as the travellers started walking from Bandra Terminus to the Bandra station, residents from the next neighbourhood descended upon them, and stabbed two people in ...