It’s not about one Ram temple
Twenty-five years ago, three domes of a medieval mosque in a UP town came crashing down. Throughout the 20th century, Hindu supremacists had fought a long battle to change the character of the nation.
Where Are India’s Dissenting Hindus?
In these troubled times, the world’s two largest democracies – India and the US – are increasingly becoming hostile, threatening places for people with Muslim names.
Unlike America
A politics of hate, however powerful, can never triumph if people defy attempts to divide them with bigotry and fear.
Spring is far behind
Kashmiri muslims throw stones during Funeral procession of Junaid, 12-year-old, of Saidpora, Srinagar succumbed to injuries on wee hours of Saturday morning at SKIMS Hospital.
When hunger is no longer a priority, but business is
India, the world’s fastest growing economy, ranks fifth from the bottom in Asia in the Global Hunger Index and the country’s dismal performance attracted no reaction from the Union government.
Learning Love from Gandhi: The Karwane Mohabbat in Porbandar
The journey of the Karwane Mohabbat that started at Nagaon in Assam on 4 September 2017, travelled across the country, offering atonement and solidarity to families battered by hate violence.
Pilgrimage to Porbandar: What Gandhi teaches us about countering hate and violence in India today
Karwan e Mohabbat, which started its journey at Nagaon in Assam on September 4, travelled across the country, offering atonement and solidarity to families battered by hate violence. The journey is a small tribute to the valiant love of Mahatma Gandhi’s last and finest months.
Depriving JNU
This 26 year-old university student cries easily. We meet Sumit in a story front-paged in The Indian Express: “He cried that day in 2015 when he travelled from his hometown Hisar to Delhi and found his name on the admission list of JNU’s MA programme
The Year of Triumph for the Small Hindi Film
The year India leaves behind was a grim one in so many ways: a year in which travelling with Eid gifts or singing carols became fraught with dangers; when hate attacks on innocents became routine; a year that saw toxic political discourse, a stuttering economy and no jobs for young people.
Karwan-e-Mohabbat: When love was threatened with sticks and stones Dispatches of Harsh Mander who is on a journey across India to raise awareness about lynchings.
The tenth day of the Karwan was a wrenching engagement with families in Nuh district in Mewat. In the course of an intensive day, we met eleven bereaved and grieving families in five villages.