Learning love from New Zealand
Hate has curdled the capacity for compassion in India. Will Indians take a leaf out of New Zealand’s book? “We are broken-hearted, but we are not broken,” declared Imam Gamal Fouda…
In Bihar, Muslims are facing increasing hostility and hatred after 2017
The state is proof that communal tension between Hindus and Muslims is not spontaneous. It thrives only because of politically engineered polarisation.
How rage and love gripped India after the Kashmir terror attack
Indian demonstrators hold placards as they form a human chain during an anti-war demonstration called by pacifist organisations in New Delhi on March 4.
Protests are not just against the CAA-NRIC-NPR trinity, but have already succeeded in numerous ways
The other part of the movement, therefore, must be to deepen our unity and solidarity. It must address not just the state but each of us. In the end, the kind of country we become will be determined not by law or court judgments, but by whether love or hate colonises our hearts.
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.’