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.
Hadiya has been denied the right to choose her faith
Akhila Ashokan, a woman from Kerala, while studying homeopathy, felt drawn to Islamic teachings after she shared an apartment with two Muslim students.
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.
The Gurgaon namaaz row marks one more victory for majoritarianism – and a template for India today
For some weeks, India’s glittering hub of information technology, industry and finance near Delhi was shrouded in fear and animosity.
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.
India owes Ankit Saxena’s father a debt of gratitude for refusing to communalise his son’s murder
By affirming that he bore Muslims no ill will, Yashpal Saxena, whose only son Ankit Saxena was murdered by the family of the Muslim girl he loved, demolished one of the most widely used rationalisations for communal hatred.
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.
Gujarat election results 2017: Don’t blame BJP only; Congress too dumped the Muslims
Never in any of his election speeches did Rahul Gandhi use the M word – Muslim. He did not touch once upon the gruesome massacre of 2002 under the watch of Modi.
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.