Скачать или смотреть Book Discussion | Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre

In 1978, around 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees, mostly belonging to the lower castes, settled in Marichjhapi — an island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal. By May 1979, the island was cleared of all refugees by Jyoti Basu’s Left Front government. Most of the refugees were sent back to the central India camps they came from, but there were many deaths: of diseases, malnutrition resulting from an economic blockade, as well as from violence unleashed by the police on the orders of the government. Some of the refugees who survived Marichjhapi say the number of those who lost their lives could be as high as 10,000, while the-then government officials maintain that there were less than ten victims. How does an entire island population disappear? How does one unearth the truth and the details of one of the worst atrocities of post-Independent India?

There is very little literature available on Marichjhapi. This is the first major non-fiction book on the massacre. Speakers include:
Deep Halder, Executive Editor, India Today Group Digital
Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Nishtha Gautam, Senior Journalist
Kanchan Gupta, Distinguished Fellow, ORF (Chair)