New hate crime tracker in India finds victims are predominantly Muslims, perpetrators Hindus
The election results in Brazil last month came as another troubling reminder of the direction in which an increasing number of countries are careening.
Hashimpura: 31 years after custodial massacre of Muslims by men in uniform, justice is incomplete
Uzma was born on the terrifying night when her father was shot dead on the banks of a canal by paramilitary soldiers, about 50-odd km from Delhi. This was in the summer of 1987.
In Odisha, no blood spilt but the fires of communal hatred are touching the skies
The first day of the Karwan e Mohabbat (caravan of love) in Odisha revealed a state torn apart by the same ruptures of communal and caste mobilisation against religious minorities and disadvantaged castes that lacerate many parts of the country.
PMO’s proposed changes in civil services allocation are an attempt to weaken India’s steel frame
During the two decades that I served in the Indian Administrative Service, I would often wonder why our country’s founding fathers and mothers chose to retain in democratic India the permanent civil services patterned closely after the colonial civil services
Alwar lynching shows the government has put the burden of ending mob killings on victims themselves
I held Rakbar Khan’s father Suleiman’s hand in mine for a long time. His face was creased with grief, his eyes often welled up.
Unending trauma: The heavy toll of ongoing violence on mental health in Kashmir
Dr Arshad Hussain, professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (IMHANS), Srinagar, has been observing the mental health of the general population in the Valley in a situation of conflict from the early 1990s, when he was just a medical student.
Hadiya has been denied the right to choose her faith
Akhila Ashokan, a woman from Kerala, while studying homeopathy, felt drawn to Islamic teachings after she shared an apartment with two Muslim students.
In Haryana, these families encountered a different kind of hate crime – at the hands of the police
It was a gut-wrenching two days. Between March 29 and March 30, the Karwan e Mohabbat team met nine families in Haryana’s Mewat region who had lost loved ones to hate murders of another kind.
The Gurgaon namaaz row marks one more victory for majoritarianism – and a template for India today
For some weeks, India’s glittering hub of information technology, industry and finance near Delhi was shrouded in fear and animosity.
Failed by the system: Delhi family that lost 3 girls to hunger had no ration cards, no state help
A fact-finding mission led by a group of activists tried to piece together the circumstances leading to the deaths of three girls.