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.
What govt could have done differently to deal with the pandemic, what it can still do now
Harsh Mandar writes: It is apparent the policies of the Union government to battle the pandemic have failed. I believe that the people of India will gravely suffer the consequences of these failures for at least a generation.
On Yamuna’s dirty banks, brotherhood of the dispossessed gathers in the only place they know as home
They prefer the unsanitary, inhospitable stretch along the river to the hot, crowded shelters to which they were taken.
Following authoritarian regimes around the world, India is using Covid-19 pandemic to crush dissent
In Delhi, large numbers of people – many of them Muslim – have been arrested in cases related to the CAA-NRC protests and recent communal riots
Harsh Mander: For India’s migrant workers, the prospect of life with dignity has become more remote
The Supreme Court said it could not rely on studies about the condition of migrant workers by private bodies when the government portrayed a different picture.
Covid-19 crisis calls for universal delivery of food and cash transfers by the state
In these dire circumstances, it is essential for the state to directly provide the basic means of survival to anyone who needs it. This must be in both cash and kind.
In Western Assam, a single mother struggles to put food on her family’s plate amid lockdown
On most days, Marjina and her family eat just boiled rice with salt and water.