Gujarat Files: When Rana Ayyub met Narendra Modi

May 28, 2016 12:51

In 2010, journalist Rana Ayyub was 26, struggling to come to terms with a dear colleagues death and working with Tehelka magazine. It was one of the lowest points in her life, and she found her way out of this rabbit hole because of a story. Ayyub began investigating the Gujarat riots of 2002 and the way the state machinery worked in Gujarat under the aegis of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. To do this, she went undercover and posed as a filmmaker from America, named Maithili Tyagi, who wanted to make a film on Modi and had a gora assistant named Mike. The identity worked. She got a meeting with Modi, who was then chief minister of Gujarat.

Here’s how it went.

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