Why the National Population Register is more dangerous than the Assam NRC
The Assam NRC was not an anti-Muslim project. But an all-India NRC based on the NPR will allow the executive to pick whose citizenship it wishes to question.
Stan Swamy has stood with the oppressed. The state considers him an enemy
It is adversaries as powerful as these that Swamy and the young Adivasis, who he stands in unflinching solidarity with, are fighting. Is it a surprise then that he is seen as a dangerous enemy of this government?
Nearly seven months after Delhi violence, a continuing attempt to target dissenting voices
As threats of arrest and incarceration on charges of secession and armed rebellion shroud young dissenting voices, who will ask: “Who lit these embers? Who stoked the wind?”
We will not be silenced: Harsh Mander on the Delhi violence case
The truth is being ripped into shreds and reimagined to create the mythology of a conspiracy of hate, violence and insurrection.
The smoke of conspiracies: The targeting of Professor Apoorvanand
The Delhi University Hindi professor has faced a barrage of media attacks claiming he is a key figure in a conspiracy to spark riots in the city in February.
Delhi riots: For survivors of the violence, a return to normalcy is only a pipe dream
How a group of volunteers tried to help victims access relief and justice.
Delhi riots: A group of volunteers chronicles stories of despair – and courage
Notes from a makeshift relief control room.
Delhi riots: Young residents share the trauma of profound loss, betrayal and injustice
A five-part series on the February violence in the capital based on a report titled ‘Chronicling Truth, Countering Hate’.
Harsh Mander: With the Ayodhya ceremony, has the inclusive India of my dreams been lost forever?
The idea of a humane country of equal citizenship has taken a bad knock.
Harsh Mander: Shaheen Bagh and the politics of love
The Delhi protest site became a model for democratic struggle, developing a vocabulary of love as resistance, and confident, equal citizenship.