All India Students Association (AISA) in collaboration with Lamakaan is organising an introduction of the book "Gujarat Files: Anatomy Of A Cover Up" followed by talk by the author Rana Ayyub, whose account of an eight-month long undercover investigative journalism into the Gujarat riots, fake encounters and the murder of state Home Minister Haren Pandya brings to the fore the startling revelations of then Gujarat government under Modi into picture.

On part with it various attacks on intellectuals and students all over the country has exposed the anti-intellectual face of the Modi Sarkar, exposing it Rama Naga, General Secretary, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) will also be putting his experiences and perspectives of attack on students especially the marginalised and Dalits.

About the Book: In 2010, the journalist Rana Ayyub spent eight months undercover in Gujarat. Ayyub, who was then working for Tehelka magazine, posed as a filmmaker. She met bureaucrats and senior police officials in Gujarat who held pivotal positions in the state between 2001 and 2010. The transcripts of the sting operation, unpublished so far, form the core of her book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up. The self-published book narrates what the officials revealed about the complicity of the state machinery in the anti-Muslim violence in 2002, as well as in “encounters” such as the one that resulted in the killing of Ishrat Jehan, and the murder of the state home minister Haren Pandya, events that accompanied the consolidation of power in Gujarat by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.

Join us at Lamakaan at 7pm where you can buy a copy of the book.