The ghost of Malegaon
Hindutva terror banks on majoritarian prejudice in the criminal justice system as much as the larger public opinion, which assumes that Muslims are guilty even of terror attacks that clearly target their own community.
New hate crime tracker in India finds victims are predominantly Muslims, perpetrators Hindus
The election results in Brazil last month came as another troubling reminder of the direction in which an increasing number of countries are careening.
Hashimpura: 31 years after custodial massacre of Muslims by men in uniform, justice is incomplete
Uzma was born on the terrifying night when her father was shot dead on the banks of a canal by paramilitary soldiers, about 50-odd km from Delhi. This was in the summer of 1987.
PMO’s proposed changes in civil services allocation are an attempt to weaken India’s steel frame
During the two decades that I served in the Indian Administrative Service, I would often wonder why our country’s founding fathers and mothers chose to retain in democratic India the permanent civil services patterned closely after the colonial civil services
Alwar lynching shows the government has put the burden of ending mob killings on victims themselves
I held Rakbar Khan’s father Suleiman’s hand in mine for a long time. His face was creased with grief, his eyes often welled up.
Unending trauma: The heavy toll of ongoing violence on mental health in Kashmir
Dr Arshad Hussain, professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (IMHANS), Srinagar, has been observing the mental health of the general population in the Valley in a situation of conflict from the early 1990s, when he was just a medical student.
In Haryana, these families encountered a different kind of hate crime – at the hands of the police
It was a gut-wrenching two days. Between March 29 and March 30, the Karwan e Mohabbat team met nine families in Haryana’s Mewat region who had lost loved ones to hate murders of another kind.
Failed by the system: Delhi family that lost 3 girls to hunger had no ration cards, no state help
A fact-finding mission led by a group of activists tried to piece together the circumstances leading to the deaths of three girls.
Civil services need urgent reform, but the Modi government’s proposals will destroy the institution
There has been an unusual spurt of interest in the higher civil services in recent weeks, for many reasons.
The uncaring state
What much of India barely acknowledges is that the Indian state has substantially transmuted into a hard, majoritarian Hindu state which is callous to, and sometimes even at war with, its minorities.