To Sanjiv Bhatt, a Man Who Displayed the Highest Courage
The fact that you could be punished in this way holds a mirror first to the craven collapse of the integrity and independence of India’s institutions of criminal justice
What Bilkis Bano Survived That Day in Gujarat, 2002
The Supreme Court recently ordered the Gujarat government to give Bano Rs 50 lakh, a job and a house – in compensation for this terrifying ordeal seventeen years ago.
The spectre of foreignness
Extending the concept of foreigners tribunals from Assam to rest of India will result in an upheaval that will stir memories of Partition.
A summary of fears and possibilities
Why the Narendra Modi government should be cautious about a majoritarian agenda
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.
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.
Solidarity is a potent weapon against pandemic, prejudice weakens us all
Harsh Mander writes on COVID-19: Public health experts differ about whether such a harsh and comprehensive a lockdown was advisable in India. But assuming it was, it was designed and implemented entirely bereft of empathy and compassion.
Why income transfer are not enough
An urban employment guarantee programme is an idea whose time has come.
The silent, irredeemable injustice of the assault on an Indian Muslim family
“When our house was completed, three storeys high, we decided to fly the national flag from the highest point on the terrace,” said Mohammed Sajid…