Hyderabad, Jan. 26 -- Amir Ullah Khan, Anjana Divakar and Samia Farheen

Ashish Khetan is one of our finest intellectuals. He has written prodigiously, fought many legal battles in his career as a lawyer and run for Parliament. He was in Hyderabad to discuss, with other eminent academics, his tryst with Godhra, the riots and the events that unfolded, all of which have been captured by him in his book 'Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva'.

Kancha Ilaiah, an Indian political theorist, writer, and activist, who began the deliberations described the book as "The most exhaustive account on the whole Gujarat Riots." The book, Ilaiah said, highlighted the pre-planned systematic attack on Muslims of Gujarat and addressed the rol...