Failed by the system: Delhi family that lost 3 girls to hunger had no ration cards, no state help
A fact-finding mission led by a group of activists tried to piece together the circumstances leading to the deaths of three girls.
India owes Ankit Saxena’s father a debt of gratitude for refusing to communalise his son’s murder
By affirming that he bore Muslims no ill will, Yashpal Saxena, whose only son Ankit Saxena was murdered by the family of the Muslim girl he loved, demolished one of the most widely used rationalisations for communal hatred.
Civil services need urgent reform, but the Modi government’s proposals will destroy the institution
There has been an unusual spurt of interest in the higher civil services in recent weeks, for many reasons.
The dark side of humanity and legality: A glimpse inside Assam’s detention centres for ‘foreigners’
The people of Assam are sitting atop a smouldering volcano, one that threatens to erupt into catastrophic suffering and injustice.
At Ankit Saxena’s birthday prayer meet, a glimpse of India as it should be
Photographs of the young man adorned several large posters. They showed him with gelled spiked hair, colourful shirts, dark glasses, ear studs, teasing laughter and loads of attitude. This collage of his pictures was surrounded by the symbols of various religions.
With his multi-faith Iftar in Delhi, Ankit Saxena’s father sets an example for these fraught times
The Mahatma would have approved! On Sunday, a humid midsummer evening in a claustrophobically narrow lane in the West Delhi suburb of Raghubir Nagar, I often felt his presence among us.
A champion of India’s poor: Sonia Gandhi’s most valuable, and least acknowledged, contribution
After Sonia Gandhi stepped down as president of the Indian National Congress this month after an often turbulent 19 years, many have commented on her mixed and bitterly contested political legacy.
Halting the hate: In Mangaluru, a Muslim family decided to stop cycle of communal revenge killings
The picturesque districts of coastal Karnataka today seethe with dark and dangerous communal animosities and hate mobilisation. Communal fault-lines erupt from time to time in spurts of bloody communal hate attacks and killings.
As MP gets ready to vote, a lynching serves as a reminder of the climate of hate under BJP rule
As Madhya Pradesh gets ready to elect its next government on Wednesday, several troubling questions loom before the electorate – the distress of farmers, the macabre piling of bodies of witnesses in the Vyapam corruption scam…
Hashimpura: 31 years after custodial massacre of Muslims by men in uniform, justice is incomplete
Uzma was born on the terrifying night when her father was shot dead on the banks of a canal by paramilitary soldiers, about 50-odd km from Delhi. This was in the summer of 1987.