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
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…