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.
In hate crime fight, a voice still feeble
Taking the cue from the U.S., the Indian Parliament needs to recognise hate killings as an act of terror
To Sanjiv Bhatt, a Man Who Displayed the Highest Courage
The fact that you could be punished in this way holds a mirror first to the craven collapse of the integrity and independence of India’s institutions of criminal justice
What Bilkis Bano Survived That Day in Gujarat, 2002
The Supreme Court recently ordered the Gujarat government to give Bano Rs 50 lakh, a job and a house – in compensation for this terrifying ordeal seventeen years ago.