Tag: Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up

Aazeen Kirmani   When award winning investigative journalist Rana Ayyub went undercover as Maithili Tyagi, an independent film maker from USA and moved around among powerful IPS officers extracting potentially explosive information from them about Haren Pandays murder, Ishrat-Sohrabuddin fake encounter and 2002 Gujarat riots she had literally put her life on the edge for eight months. One miscalculated step could have seen her martyred for India’s cause and in that case, unlike the jawans who give up their life fighting for the country she would have remained unsung, unknown. In the book...