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Roles that are cast in stone

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 13, 2017Leave a comment

In urban India some imagine that caste demarcations have become history. We need to only check the caste identity of those employed to clean the toilets in our offices and homes to recognise how wrong they are.

Why are Indian students angry

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 20, 2016Leave a comment

India’s public universities and technical institutes are suddenly transforming into sites of youthful turmoil and bitter contestations. Unfolding within their walls are battles for freedom of speech in universities, and less edifying skirmishes about nationalism.

Where fear is still a reality

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 19, 2016Leave a comment

It is eight years since communal violence swept the second poorest, deeply-forested district of Odisha, Kandhamal. We must not allow the erasure of this hate violence from public memory, because the suffering and displacement of the tribal and Dalit Christians targeted by the communal violence…

There’s little to cheer in the Gulberg Society massacre verdict

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 17, 2016Leave a comment

Every communal massacre in India is marked by the stain of impunity. Impunity means the assurance that those who plan and execute the slaughter and rape of innocents, and the loot and arson of their homes and businesses will ultimately escape all punishment.

The Mewat Biryani raids have permanently damaged livelihoods of poor Muslims

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 14, 2016Leave a comment

In Mewat, Haryana, the traditional cheer of Eid ul Zuha was muted this year, overcast by clouds of fear. Four out of five residents of the district are Muslims. Outside Jammu and Kashmir, Mewat has the highest ratio of Muslim residents except Dhubri in Assam.

Terrorism and communal violence must carry same stigma and punishment

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 13, 2016Leave a comment

Three men have been marched to the gallows in recent years in India. All three were convicted of terror crimes. By contrast, I cannot recall a single person awarded the death penalty for communal violence since Independence.

Muzaffarnagar riots: Judicial panel fails to hold up the light to truth

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 12, 2016Leave a comment

Although catastrophic communal massacres recur from time to time, the Indian State has never appointed truth and reconciliation commissions.

Mr Khattar, this is not a ‘small issue’

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 11, 2016Leave a comment

In Mewat, Haryana, the traditional cheer of Eid ul Zuha was muted this year, overcast by clouds of fear. Four out of five residents here are Muslims. Mewat, recently renamed Nuh, is one of the poorest districts of Haryana.

Little closure for the families of the victims

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 11, 2016Leave a comment

Every communal massacre in India is marked by the stain of impunity. Imp unity means the assurance that those who plan and execute the slaughter and rape of innocents, and the loot and arson of their homes will ultimately escape all punishment.

Is it sacrilege for upper castes to clean toilets?

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 10, 2016Leave a comment

In urban India some imagine that caste demarcations have become history. We need to only check the caste identity of those employed to clean the toilets in our offices and homes to recognise how wrong they are.

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