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...twist his nation's soul, Narendra Modi is first conquering its heart. He's halfway through another 20-hour day on his "Journey of Pride" across the western state of Gujarat, India's industrial powerhouse, and as everywhere, Modi is being mobbed. After a brief speech, he flops, sweating and exhausted, back into the passenger seat of his election campaign bus. The crowd won't leave him alone, however. They reach in through the windows of the bus, heaping armfuls of orange marigold garlands and heady rose petals onto his legs. But his supporters?fervent Hindus all?aren't taken...
...mission statement when a mob set fire to a train, which resulted in 58 Hindu pilgrims being burned to death, sparking the worst religious riots the nation had seen for a decade. In the days and weeks that followed, Hindus armed with swords and barbed tridents rampaged through Gujarat. As Modi's police force stood by, they torched Muslim shops, raped Muslim women, beheaded and disemboweled Muslim men, even cut an unborn child from the womb of one Muslim mother. According to human-rights groups, Hindus killed more than 2,000 Muslims and forced tens of thousands more to flee...
...writing the script, all she knew was that she wanted to shoot a love story. She had no idea in which context. But in the aftermath of 9/11, she focused the story increasingly on religious hatred-a subject that became all the more timely when riots broke out in Gujarat in March 2002 and one's faith became a litmus test to decide who lives and who dies. Though the inspiration was macabre, Sen doesn't fill the frames of this delicate work with blood and gore, explaining that she wanted, above all, "to make a very simple film about...
...today's India. "Scenes of communal hatred are not usually allowed in the movies," she says. "If you do portray it, then you are required to balance it out. And that's the sad part. In reality, it is not balanced. In the Bombay riots and in the Gujarat riots, it was all a pogrom against the Muslims...
...that both countries were often only a few steps away from all-out war over the past eight months. There was a constant rain of artillery fire on both sides of the border, and both armies were placed on highest alert in March following riots?Muslim-Hindu riots in Gujarat and last month when Muslim gunmen besieged a Hindu temple in the same western Indian state. These sources say that the U.S. played a key role in keeping the two nations at bay. On at least one occasion, the Pentagon's spy satellites picked up a sudden, secret build...