One massacre. Three lives. In a non-fictional account of an event etched deep in the annals of contemporary India, independent journalist and filmmaker Revati Laul has written a compelling account of the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat. With the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra on 26 February 2002 as the backdrop, Footnote1 the author stitches together the lives of three protagonists, who may have been victims of their circumstances but were in varying degrees primarily the perpetrators of the violence.