National dishonour
We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition
We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition
Among all the countries included in the report, India has the highest rate of child wasting (which rose from the 2008-2012 level of 16.5 per cent to 20.8 per cent). Its child stunting rate (at 37.9 per cent) also remains shockingly high.
Lynching, the scourge of new India
The word lynching is of foreign origin. But this does not mean that mob killings are alien to India
The middle ground
Despite some omissions, an eclectic volume of writings by one of India’s longest-serving politicians.
Citizenship Amendment Bill will result in untold fear and dislocation of Muslim citizens
This is the fearful tempest that threatens to engulf India in the coming months, one which will destroy in its wake this country as it was imagined and promised.
Tabrez Ansari lynching case: Why the outcome must concern us all
India’s criminal justice system has always been biased against disadvantaged castes, women and Muslims. Few people who organised and participated in caste and communal massacres and rapes have ever been punished.
A flawed process that pleased none
Even the Bengali-origin Assamese included under NRC can be deemed ‘illegal immigrants’ later
Tabrez Ansari’s killing: Land of blood and shame
The lynch mob, the doctors, the magistrate and jail staff, they all share the guilt of Tabrez Ansari’s death
Chronicle of an acquittal foretold
Pehlu Khan verdict underlines subversion of justice by police and bureaucracy.
The ‘Most Productive’ Parliament Session May Also Be the Most Dangerous
It is now abundantly clear that the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah leadership views the emphatic expanded mandate which they seized in May 2019 to be one to remould India into a majoritarian, authoritarian, militarist and amoral Hindu nation.