The central idea of the Republic, that the country belongs to all equally, is in tatters today
The central idea of the Republic, that the country belongs to all equally, is in tatters today.
Harsh Mander’s open letter on 2019 results: A savage summer, a merciless drought
I looked to these elections as a bellwether of the soul of India’s majority Hindu people. I am anguished by the results. Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigning during his roadshow at Varanasi. | AFP After a long, harrowing drought, you wait with aching, desperate hope for the monsoon rains. You expect it will quench your…
As Haryana votes on May 12, a reminder of a troubling death in a police encounter in Mewat
Several eyewitnesses say Arshad Khan was shot dead at point-blank range in February. This brazen act indicates police are assured of their impunity. A file photo of members of the Karwan-e-Mohabbat meeting families of hate crime victims in Mewat, in 2018. The jeeps of the Karwan-e-Mohabbat lumbered into the dusty village of Bisru in Nuh, a Muslim…
Over five years, BJP has consistently sought to marginalise Muslims
The 2014 general elections were crafted by the BJP to render India’s Muslims politically irrelevant by welding disadvantaged Hindu castes with privileged castes— and in India’s Northeast even with Christians — against the constructed common enemy, India’s Muslims.