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The burning train on February 27, 2002 – and the lies and false narratives built around it – kept Narendra Modi in power in Gujarat, and started him on the road to becoming the prime minister of India.
Every second Indian was born and raised in times of aggressive majoritarianism, and also in neoliberal India, with no memory of another country, as it was imagined, and imperfectly lived.
It was one of the many ordinary nights a pack of nine policemen from Gujarat Railway Police (GRP) thought would pass without any notice. They were part of a special squad whose duty was to patrol the Bhopal-Rajkot Express train from Ahmedabad to Dahod station and return by Sabarmati Express. The return train, Sabarmati Express, was perennially late and after hours of waiting,