India’s skies have dimmed, says Harsh Mander
Activist Harsh Mander writes about how the Constitution had been under constant assault over many decades but it still endured. Now, with the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Constitution has been felled
CAB and NRC: Why I Will Register Myself as a Muslim
“Doing so will clear the moral pathways of the civil disobedience I intend to carry out against the graded hierarchy of citizenship.”
If Parliament passes the Citizenship Amendment Bill, India’s constitutional structure, as we know it, will lose its soul
The CAB-NRC poses the gravest threat to India’s secular democratic constitution since India became a republic, and must be fought with a nation-wide civil disobedience movement. The contours of this struggle need to be worked out by We the People.
On NRC, Shah and Gogoi show a similar disregard for suffering of the vulnerable.
Justice Gogoi chose a moment, a few days before he remitted office, in a public function in Delhi, to vigorously defend the NRC in Assam. It is unusual for an incumbent Chief Justice to publicly declare his views on highly politically fraught matters.
The frequent deaths of India’s sewer workers isn’t a governance failure – they are rooted in caste
The philosophy of caste validates the casual subjection of sanitation workers to the hazardous, humiliating task of cleaning sewers and septic tanks.
The Ayodhya Judgment in India’s Enveloping Darkness
Finding land to build a mosque or temple was never the question. It was whether those who razed the mosque should be punished, or rewarded for their illegal act by being allowed to erect a temple at the site of their crime.
One morning, returning from visiting his sister, an 80-year-old Muslim man was lynched in Sitamarhi
Rumours had swirled about a Durga idol being damaged by a stone hurled from a mosque. Zainul Ansari paid the price.
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