Covid-19 lockdown: A cloth trader recounts his grueling walk from Gujarat to Uttar Pradesh
Shamim went days without food, water or sleep. Daily phone calls to his family is what kept him going.
In Haryana’s Nuh district, locked-down and hungry residents are living off sporadic acts of charity
Shahnaz, a domestic helper, and her family do not know where their meals are coming from.
The Coronavirus Has Morphed Into an Anti-Muslim Virus
We expected this crisis to be a long interregnum of suffering, but one in which India’s demons of hate would be exiled. The ruling establishment had other plans.
‘I cannot eat or sleep’: In Assam, farmers grown anxious as vegetables go unsold amid lockdown
150 small farmers who were interviewed said they would each lose Rs 20,000 on average.
A pandemic in an unequal India
The official strategies place the responsibility on citizens, a majority without privilege, to fight the virus.
State’s measures to fight coronavirus are stripping the poor of dignity and hope
Harsh Mander writes: The Indian government found it fit to charter planes with medical staff to fly in migrants from other countries. But it felt no responsibility at all to the millions of migrants stranded without work and food in every corner of the country.
As Delhi burned, institutions looked away
If not urgently addressed and mended, the cessation of a constitutional state will destroy social trust.
Delhi Riots: What the State Government Must Do
An immense deal can be achieved by the administration to help victims of violence, if it musters political courage and morality and is driven by public compassion.
A nation for the persecuted
India’s dismal treatment of the Rohingya must lead to a movement for an inclusive state, with an acceptable refugee law
States boycotting NPR can cause a constitutional crisis
History will long remember this moment for how citizens pulled India back from the edge of fascism, through both, the resolve of collective civil disobedience and the public affirmation of their solidarity.