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The ghost of Malegaon

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userJanuary 7, 2019Leave a comment

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.

Crisis of cashlessness

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userDecember 24, 2016Leave a comment

Long queues outside banks and ATMs have become a common sight following PM Narendra Modi’s announcement to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. (Express Photo: Praveen Khanna)

Hardest hit, most invisible

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userNovember 29, 2016Leave a comment

“We have to dig wells every day in order to quench our thirst”. This popular Hindi saying recurred in conversations when I walked Delhi’s streets to understand how the abrupt withdrawal of old currency notes had impacted Delhi’s poorest, homeless and casual workers, and people dependent on charity.

Rather than fighting for those displaced by the Muzaffarnagar riots, it appears to be parroting majoritarian, communal stereotyping.

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userOctober 5, 2016Leave a comment

It is highly unfortunate that the NHRC report plays into the communal stereotype that dates back to Partition — of Muslim young men sexually harassing Hindu girls.

Muzaffarnagar, three years later

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userSeptember 7, 2016Leave a comment

On September 7 2013, a gale of hate violence hit districts of western Uttar Pradesh, destroying and displacing thousands. Three years later, the large majority of these hate refugees remain exiled permanently from the villages of their birth, painfully rebuilding their lives in small makeshift colonies.

People of India have let down Irom Sharmila

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userAugust 11, 2016Leave a comment

Irom Sharmila holds a press conference after breaking her fast in Imphal, north-eastern Indian state of Manipur. Earlier on Tuesday, a judge had granted her bail after she assured him that she planned to end her fast.

A law against children

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userJuly 29, 2016Leave a comment

Home-based work absolves the owners and managers of global supply chains from any legal obligations of fair wages, healthy work conditions and social protection to the actual end-line workers who labour in isolated home-based units.

Unseeing the drought

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userMay 5, 2016Leave a comment

The people of India’s villages carry collective memories of centuries of calamitous losses of sometimes millions of lives in famines. Famines have been pushed into history, unarguably one of free India’s greatest accomplishments.

No jobs in sight

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userApril 7, 2016Leave a comment

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan raised many hackles with his demand for affirmative action or job reservations for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates in the private sector.

Can an Indian spring be far behind?

The Indian Express 2016By harsh_userMarch 11, 2016Leave a comment

Kanhaiya says he does not want to make a career in politics. I wish he would: I cannot think of a single national leader from any party who can match his love for his country, its oppressed people and its Constitution. (Illustration: C R Sasikumar)

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