Hadiya has been denied the right to choose her faith
Akhila Ashokan, a woman from Kerala, while studying homeopathy, felt drawn to Islamic teachings after she shared an apartment with two Muslim students.
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.
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.
Yogi Adityanath is as much a creation of the so-called secular parties as of the Sangh
The masks have been thrown to the winds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his most trusted aide and Bhartiya Janata Party President Amit Shah have audaciously signalled to both national and global public opinion that they feel no need for masks and fig-leafs any longer.
The taming of Kashmir is seen to be essential for the establishment of a Hindu Rashtra
It is impossible to comprehend the policy of New Delhi to Kashmir without recognising that for people on both sides of the ideological divide in India, Kashmir has a supreme symbolic importance well beyond just the land and its people.
Why Jharkhand’s anti-conversion bill is against Constitution and not necessary
Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das. Jharkhand will not be the first government to pass an anti-conversion law if this is voted for by the state assembly. Anti-conversion laws were passed in Orissa in 1967, in Madhya Pradesh in 1968, in Gujarat in 2003 and Chhattisgarh in 2006.
To resist the Right, create more Humans of Hindutva Facebook pages and Twitter accounts
India is in danger of mutating into a republic of both hate and fear. Each feeds on the other. All those who defend the idea of India as a humane, pluralist, rational and inclusive society are also bullied into fear and silence by mobs, online and on the streets.
Who’s most guilty of the Kathua barbarity? Modi, Sangh Parivar, ‘secular parties’ – and all of us
Today, in this sombre moment of collective grief and revulsion across India, the child from a pastoral community in Kathua with two sets of parents has also become your daughter and mine.
India turns 70, a sombre reminder of stolen freedoms
For millions of Indians, freedom still remains just a word. Link: https://scroll.in/article/847268/as-india-turns-70-a-somber-reminder-of-stolen-freedoms This article was first published by Scroll on 15th August, 2017 Even as millions of Indians rally to celebrate – with pride and gratitude – 70 years of India’s freedom, worrying reminders surfaced for the country’s religious minorities and oppressed castes and classes…
Unlike America
A politics of hate, however powerful, can never triumph if people defy attempts to divide them with bigotry and fear.