No shortcuts to income guarantee
Congress president Rahul Gandhi signaled the earnestness of his party’s resolve to end poverty and hunger by announcing an untried policy instrument
Never encountered people as gracious as in Pakistan
In this extract from Harsh Mander’s book, Partitions of the Heart, the former bureaucrat and activist points out the absurdity of having to show one’s love for India by hating Pakistan.
A national register of exclusion
There are few parallels anywhere else of the state itself producing statelessness in the manner that it is doing in Assam. By requiring long-term residents of Assam to prove their citizenship…
As India sends Rohingyas back to face certain persecution in Myanmar, every Indian is complicit
The official explanation of why India is determined not to continue to give refuge to Rohingyas has legal, constitutional and moral problems.
Manipur shows the way
Six months have passed since the Supreme Court — anguished by what it described as ‘horrific acts of mobocracy’ — issued a slew of directions to the Union and State governments to protect India’s ‘pluralist social fabric’ from mob violence.
Muzaffarnagar killings: In his new book, Harsh Mander writes on the betrayals of secular parties
‘The role of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government and of other parties that claim to be “secular” require much closer investigations.’
‘We always thought ourselves as Assamese’: Tinsukia killings may have changed Assam village forever
The long shadow of death fell sombrely on the banks of the Brahmaputra, in Assam, in November. Five men, all Bengali Hindu settlers whose families fled the East Pakistan district of Sylhet in 1964, were picked up from their village by men dressed in battle fatigues on November 1, and shot dead.
Majoritarian lynch mobs are leading India towards a second Partition
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and one of the most credible voices in public life in India, worries about a second partition…
The ghost of Malegaon
Hindutva terror banks on majoritarian prejudice in the criminal justice system as much as the larger public opinion, which assumes that Muslims are guilty even of terror attacks that clearly target their own community.
‘The Anatomy of Hate’ review: Life after violence
India has been the site of recurring episodes of horrific hate violence, which target people disadvantaged by caste, religious identity and gender. In all such episodes — of Dalit atrocities, communal killings, lynching, gang-rapes — we tend to imagine the perpetrators of these crimes…