arundhati roy's controversial comments on gujarat riots in missing in advocacy and controversy section hi arundhati roy's comments on gujarat riots of that came in outlook magazine when the riots were happening which got very high media attention when the enquiry proved false and subsequent apology was published in the same magazine are one of the biggest controversial statement ever issued by her which triggered widespread violence during the riots is missing from advocacy and controversy section of the wikipedia article about 'arundhati roy some of the comments in the article published in the outlook magazine were last night a friend from baroda called weeping it took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was it wasn't very complicated only that sayeeda a friend of hers had been caught by a mob only that her stomach had been ripped open and stuffed with burning rags only that after she died someone carved 'om' on her forehead a mob surrounded the house of former congress mp iqbal ehsan jaffri his phone calls to the director general of police the police commissioner the chief secretary the additional chief secretary home were ignored the mobile police vans around his house did not intervene the mob broke into the house they stripped his daughters and burned them alive then they beheaded ehsan jaffri and dismembered him of course it's only a coincidence that jaffri was a trenchant critic of gujarat chief minister narendra modi during his campaign for the rajkot assembly by election in february please refer to the below citations and for further details democracy who's she when she's at home outlook magazine may issue to the jaffri family an apology her apology posted in outlook magazine may issue fiddling with facts as gujarat burns by balbir k punj outlook magazine may issue thanks and regards prasanth