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.
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.
Reclaiming the Republic: With its manifesto, Congress has put concerns of ordinary Indians in focus
The Congress, after its political revival over the last year, in the crucial weeks since the February 14 terror attack in Pulwama, South Kashmir, was confused and defensive…
New justice of New India: The mob attack on Gurugram Muslim family follows a sickening pattern
“When our house was completed, three storeys high, we decided to fly the national flag from the highest point on the terrace,” said Mohammed Sajid, his arm in a sling, his feet unsteady, head still giddy.
In Bihar, Muslims are facing increasing hostility and hatred after 2017
The state is proof that communal tension between Hindus and Muslims is not spontaneous. It thrives only because of politically engineered polarisation.
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.
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.