Within the years following the 2002 communal riots, the Indian state of Gujarat was rocked by a collection of 'encounters': extrajudicial killings carried out by the police staged as acts of self-defence towards escaping detainees. Shubhradeep Chakravorty’s cogent, straight-talking Encountered on Saffron Agenda? reveals the reality behind 4 infamous encounters that occurred in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, between 2002 and 2005.
