Final Solution

In February and March 2002, the Indian State of Gujarat witnessed horrific incidents of unparallelled violence that can only be described as Genocide. Over 2000 people, including British Citizens were slaughtered with more than 100,000 people displaced in under-resourced refugee camps. Houses were systematically looted; businesses burnt down, hundreds of women gang raped and many children murdered.

Substantial evidence suggests that the Gujarat State government, led by the current Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the police orchestrated the violence and were responsible for the carnage. Yet, despite domestic and international public pressure, not a single prominent individual has been held to account or brought to justice.

Commentating on the violence in Gujarat, The US based Human Rights Watch states - "What happened in Gujarat was not a spontaneous uprising, it was a carefully orchestrated attack against Muslims. The attacks were planned in advance and organised with extensive participation of the police and state government officials." The violence in 2002 followed a deteriorating trend of human rights abuses against the Christian, Muslim and Dhalit minorities in Gujarat, this trend has continued since 2002. Indeed, in 2005, the Chief Minister of Gujarat was banned from visiting the US for his part in the Genocide and continued Human rights abuses in Gujarat, citing Modi to be in "in severe violation of religious freedoms".

This film is worth a million textbooks, because it shows first-hand what was happening in Gujarat and draws some very relevant parallels with the Jewish experience in Nazi Germany.

Never Again? Watch this film and wake up....

Amazing movie totally based on facts and statement of victims.shows how low modi and bjp can go for winning elections they clearly have blood on their hands..

As the records go, he did not send help to stop what followed by as one can relate to a genocide that resulted into mass killings and some 150000 people being displaced.. he let that happen to probably achieve his ultimate goal.. the brutal killings, the mass rapes and tortures on the name of religion ... how a person who goes to temple, recites mantras, reads Ramayana and Bhagwadgita, picks up a dagger and kills an innocent child, rapes a woman in front of her family and burns people d alive... How do we fail to understand the difference between Hinduism and hindutva!!! Hindutva is monolithic and as a matter of fact quite opposite to Hinduism.. This documentary complies some facts, interviews with real people at the real affected locations..

I saw this quite a long time ago, but I'll comment on it now. It is a very good documentary, probing into the horrendous massacre of Muslims in Gujarat, in 2002, as well as all things pertaining to Hindu nationalism and communalism. It employs the technique of interviews with minimal commentary, allowing for a very nuanced and interesting flow/style, and allowing for a relative open-ness for your own critical thinking to ferment.

Despite that however, this documentary seriously lacks a certain kind of depth. It is... it is naive, deceptive, snide, and... essentially catered; catered to westerners, outsiders to this issue, for the intended sputtering response of OMG FASCISM! and for garnering western 'critical claim'.

To start off, this film provides no ideological backdrop to Hindutva, and spends a great deal of time talking to dipsh*t cadres, basically assuming from the beginning: Hindutva is wrong. It also steers clear of the difficult task of tackling the extremely complex historical and political backdrops regarding how Hindutva came to be, why it came to be, and what sustains it. It makes foreign the idea of examining legitimate Hindu frustration regarding past colonialism inflicted by external Islam and Christianity, and most importantly the present colonialism inflicted by internal Nehruvianism/Communism. It doesn't talk about India being the most beleaguered and terrorized nation in the world, with it's largest minority out of many minorities, being so fiercely secessionist, anti-integrationist, anti-secular, and anti-majority in so many aspects and through so many of its dealings ever since losing power a century and a half ago. Within the movie, I could not fathom the absurdity (and therefore hilarity) of two short but crucial scenes. The one first was a Congress Party rally, making it quite clear for us that it is the good party, the defender of secularism and freedom. Oh yes. "When a giant tree falls, the earth below shakes", am I right? ... The second took place in a mosque, with the Imam asking for calm and unity. Now, how easy that was. With such speed and efficiency, we've been assuaged. Islam is a religion of peace; there's your proof. That case is closed, now lets move on to other things. ...

LOL.

It is this method of 'just' interviewing the people, which, while good on one hand, is bad on another. This method lends to a disproportionate analysis of the Indian Hindu-Muslim conflict. Though the following example doesn't fit perfectly, I think it's sufficient: think about a hypothetical, analogous film condemning the racism and extremism of the Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam. Of course, racism and extremism are worth condemning, but all of us living in North America know that there is much more to the issue than that, and would be quite exasperated if such a hypothetical film were about that and nothing else. (Now... a film I'd like to see would be one about the FULLY REALIZED fascism of Pakistan, lol.)

So, in closing, this film definitely is great, despite having like, 90% of my review made up of criticism. Though, you know, still, keep that criticism in mind. As for myself, I am an atheist of Hindu descent, but I don't identify with the corresponding atheists in Indian society, the masochistic Nehruvianist/Communist elites. Instead, out of the warped political landscape of India, the Hindu Nationalists are the least bad and most sensible, therefore I identify with them in that capacity. Of course, they're a conservative religious party, and looking at grassroots cadres, have elements of violent and bigotry, they, at a political levels push forward a few very progressive and correct ideas: uniform civil code, liberalizing markets, Ram Mandir (which definitely should be built; Muslims should come to say, "out of the thousands of mosques built of demolished temples, we'll let you have this one back, which is your Mecca, Medina, or Al-Quds"), and striking down article 370 (giving special status to Kashmir). The existence of the Hindu nationalists is quite justified, despite this blemish (of blood), and they may be one of the best things to happen to India.

Ultimately, I think, what India needs is a prominent straight-forward liberal party, a liberal nationalist party that is pro-capitalist, pro-modernist, (truly) secularist, egalitarian, feminist, free speech / libertarian, and assertive with Pakistan. India should have, from the beginning, followed the ideological and philosophical example of the United States and the practical example of Japan.

* And just to add, did you notice how laden with English everybody's Hindi was? I've read that this mixing is prestigious, but to me it just sounds SO idiotic! Childish would be another way to describe it; as would the words gimmick and caricature. Hindi is going down the drain... perhaps an 'Urdu' of English will develop is this isn't kept in check.

As for Narendra Modi, call him a murderer, but LOL, can that guy ever orate. It's sad how for Indians one standard for which I accord respect is simply knowing the words of their own language. Too bad for his Hindutvadi subordinates, those defenders of of Hindu culture, LOL. They had no problem in indulging in the Anglo-vocabular smörgåsbord... linguistic colonial chains more like it. And even more absurd, is how Muslims are not OK, but their words are (duniyaa, zindagi, khoshish).

FINAL SOLUTION, documentary film, set up in Gujrat during February 2002 - July 2003, deals with the Gujrat riots, which shook the country. The movie is a study of the politics of hate. It is divided into four parts. It depicts the planned Genocide against the Muslims (minority community) and the aftermath of the carnage: Hindu-Muslim polarisation. It also tries to figure out the meaning of the emerging 'Hindutva'. The Terror Trail reconstructs through eyewitness accounts the attack on Gulbarg (Ahmedabad) and acts of barbaric violence against Muslim women at Eral and Delol/Kalol (Panchmahals) even as Chief Minister, Narendra Modi traverses the state on his Gaurav Yatra. The film is so powerful, that it can literally destroy a political party. A must watch!