As India sends Rohingyas back to face certain persecution in Myanmar, every Indian is complicit
The official explanation of why India is determined not to continue to give refuge to Rohingyas has legal, constitutional and moral problems.
Manipur shows the way
Six months have passed since the Supreme Court — anguished by what it described as ‘horrific acts of mobocracy’ — issued a slew of directions to the Union and State governments to protect India’s ‘pluralist social fabric’ from mob violence.
Muzaffarnagar killings: In his new book, Harsh Mander writes on the betrayals of secular parties
‘The role of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government and of other parties that claim to be “secular” require much closer investigations.’
‘We always thought ourselves as Assamese’: Tinsukia killings may have changed Assam village forever
The long shadow of death fell sombrely on the banks of the Brahmaputra, in Assam, in November. Five men, all Bengali Hindu settlers whose families fled the East Pakistan district of Sylhet in 1964, were picked up from their village by men dressed in battle fatigues on November 1, and shot dead.
Majoritarian lynch mobs are leading India towards a second Partition
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and one of the most credible voices in public life in India, worries about a second partition…
The ghost of Malegaon
Hindutva terror banks on majoritarian prejudice in the criminal justice system as much as the larger public opinion, which assumes that Muslims are guilty even of terror attacks that clearly target their own community.
‘The Anatomy of Hate’ review: Life after violence
India has been the site of recurring episodes of horrific hate violence, which target people disadvantaged by caste, religious identity and gender. In all such episodes — of Dalit atrocities, communal killings, lynching, gang-rapes — we tend to imagine the perpetrators of these crimes…
People no country wants
When the sun went down on 2018, the doors closed for one million residents of Assam who were unable to file their claims to prove that they are Indian citizens.
2018 Saw Films That Would Have Been Unthinkable a Decade Ago
This was an exciting year for Hindi cinema. Self-assured scripts were written on subjects and films made in ways that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.
Yogi Raj Priorities: Catch Cow Killers Over Cop Killers?
Just over two weeks ago, on December 3, inspector Subodh Singh was killed by a mob in UP’s Bulandshar. Some 400 people rampaged through a village after 25 cow carcasses were found in a nearby jungle. Inspector Subodh Singh died of gunshot wounds when he went there to control the violence.