Manoj Mitta is a senior editor with the Times Of India, writing on legal, human rights and public policy issues. In 2007, he co-authored When A Tree Shook Delhi, a critically acclaimed book on fact-finding done by official agencies in the wake of the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage. A law graduate, Mitta worked earlier with the Indian Express and India Today. He lives in Noida. He is the only one to have written books on the two biggest instances of communal violence: When a Tree Shook Delhi: The 1984 carnage and its Aftermath (2007) and The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra (2014).