Baby Valmiki recounts the death of her husband Raju and his two companions in 2012. Illustration: Krishna Balakrishnan 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 members died during sewage cleaning, and…
Zahid Khan worked in the North Eastern state for 20 years, hoping to give his children a better life. A mob claiming he was a kidnapper changed it all abruptly. Zahid Khan loved to dress up. Zahid Khan was just 18 when he was married to Shama Parveen, who was even younger than him. The…
India’s criminal justice system has always been biased against disadvantaged castes, women and Muslims. Few people who organised and participated in caste and communal massacres and rapes have ever been punished.
Chinta Bai lost her son to a snakebite and her husband to the inexorable practice of manual scavenging. Chinta outside her one-room house 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 members…
Prakash Lakra and three friends were waiting to skin a bull that had died a natural death. An upper-caste mob claimed they’d killed the animal. Jeremina Lakra, whose husband Prakash was lynched by a mob, speaks to the Karwan e Mohabbat team. | Abdullah Zakaria It was the peak of the 2019 election campaign. In a…
Even the Bengali-origin Assamese included under NRC can be deemed ‘illegal immigrants’ later