Tabrez Ansari’s killing: Land of blood and shame
The lynch mob, the doctors, the magistrate and jail staff, they all share the guilt of Tabrez Ansari’s death
The lynch mob, the doctors, the magistrate and jail staff, they all share the guilt of Tabrez Ansari’s death
Pehlu Khan verdict underlines subversion of justice by police and bureaucracy.
The sight of her three-year-old son and her infant daughter reminded Rekha Devi of the reason to live. Rekha Devi and her children. This article is part of “India’s Dirty Secret”, a series on manual scavenging and sewage worker deaths. Based on a study of the International Labour Organisation, Delhi, it brings together stories of families whose…
In 2017, Kodarbahi Gamar was thrashed in public by the police on allegations that he and three others had slaughtered a bull. The Karawan e Mohabbat team in Gujarat. | Karawan e Mohabbat via Facebook The target of the large majority of lynch attacks in the name of the cow across India in recent years…
It is now abundantly clear that the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah leadership views the emphatic expanded mandate which they seized in May 2019 to be one to remould India into a majoritarian, authoritarian, militarist and amoral Hindu nation.
Raju died even before his 21st birthday. His father is afraid that the family will lose their home if they file a complaint against those who hired him. Rest in Manhole | Johnny Walker This article is part of “India’s Dirty Secret”, a series on manual scavenging and sewage worker deaths. Based on a study of…
Despite death threats from the Jats who killed his brother and parents, a young Dalit believes he owes it to his community to keep up the legal fight. Ravi Kumar’s parents and his brother, Vivek. In the seventh decade of the Indian republic and the second decade of the 21st century, one of the…
Khan was accused of being a thief, which fits in with the stereotype of local Manipuri Muslims. Members of the Karwan-e-Mohabbat with Mohamed Nasib Ali, the father of Farooq Khan, at their home in Manipur. | Karwan-e-Mohabbat In the triumphalist march of majoritarian hatred and violence in India, old fractures – of religion, caste and…
Taking the cue from the U.S., the Indian Parliament needs to recognise hate killings as an act of terror