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.
In Madhya Pradesh, priests attacked for singing carols bear witness to erosion of religious freedom
It was night by the time our weary and dusty band of travellers in Karwan e Mohabbat reached the seminary near Satna, Madhya Pradesh, where young prospective Catholic priests spend several years studying theology.
New hate crime tracker in India finds victims are predominantly Muslims, perpetrators Hindus
The election results in Brazil last month came as another troubling reminder of the direction in which an increasing number of countries are careening.
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.
In Odisha, no blood spilt but the fires of communal hatred are touching the skies
The first day of the Karwan e Mohabbat (caravan of love) in Odisha revealed a state torn apart by the same ruptures of communal and caste mobilisation against religious minorities and disadvantaged castes that lacerate many parts of the country.
Alwar lynching shows the government has put the burden of ending mob killings on victims themselves
I held Rakbar Khan’s father Suleiman’s hand in mine for a long time. His face was creased with grief, his eyes often welled up.
Unending trauma: The heavy toll of ongoing violence on mental health in Kashmir
Dr Arshad Hussain, professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (IMHANS), Srinagar, has been observing the mental health of the general population in the Valley in a situation of conflict from the early 1990s, when he was just a medical student.
In Haryana, these families encountered a different kind of hate crime – at the hands of the police
It was a gut-wrenching two days. Between March 29 and March 30, the Karwan e Mohabbat team met nine families in Haryana’s Mewat region who had lost loved ones to hate murders of another kind.
The Gurgaon namaaz row marks one more victory for majoritarianism – and a template for India today
For some weeks, India’s glittering hub of information technology, industry and finance near Delhi was shrouded in fear and animosity.
The uncaring state
What much of India barely acknowledges is that the Indian state has substantially transmuted into a hard, majoritarian Hindu state which is callous to, and sometimes even at war with, its minorities.