Among all the countries included in the report, India has the highest rate of child wasting (which rose from the 2008-2012 level of 16.5 per cent to 20.8 per cent). Its child stunting rate (at 37.9 per cent) also remains shockingly high.
The word lynching is of foreign origin. But this does not mean that mob killings are alien to India
Despite some omissions, an eclectic volume of writings by one of India’s longest-serving politicians.
This is the fearful tempest that threatens to engulf India in the coming months, one which will destroy in its wake this country as it was imagined and promised.
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.
Even the Bengali-origin Assamese included under NRC can be deemed ‘illegal immigrants’ later
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.
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.
Taking the cue from the U.S., the Indian Parliament needs to recognise hate killings as an act of terror
