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Hashimpura: 31 years after custodial massacre of Muslims by men in uniform, justice is incomplete

Scroll 2018By harsh_userDecember 10, 2018Leave a comment

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.

The Many Deaths of Ishrat Jahan

The Wire 2016By harsh_userOctober 25, 2018Leave a comment

In the early hours of a midsummer morning, at the outskirts of Ahmedabad near the city’s waterworks, on June 15, 2004, the Gujarat police shot dead four occupants of a car. One of those killed was a young 19-year-old woman. Her name was Ishrat Jahan.

Junaid, my son

The Indian Express 2017By harsh_userDecember 10, 2017Leave a comment

I did not know him when he lived. But in his death, in the way he died, I mourn him like a son.
His dreams were unfamiliar to my agnostic world.

Hashimpura: 31 years after custodial massacre of Muslims by men in uniform, justice is incomplete

Scroll 2018By harsh_userDecember 10, 2017Leave a comment

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.

Gujarat riots victim Bilkis Bano’s hard-fought victory holds out hope at a time of fear and hate

Scroll 2017By harsh_userDecember 8, 2017Leave a comment

The epic, heroic legal battle fought by the barely lettered wife of a small Gujarati cattle trader has caught the imagination of many in the country. The judgement of the Bombay High Court on Thursday – which upheld the life sentence awarded to 11 men convicted by a lower court of raping her and killing 14 members of her family…

Assam’s Muslims are living at the mercy of the mob, the unknown assailant and a partisan state

Scroll 2017By harsh_userDecember 4, 2017Leave a comment

Karwan e Mohabbat began its journey of solidarity, atonement and conscience from Assam on September 4. There, we met four families, each still weighed down by the heaviest of burdens any parent can be called upon to carry – that of the bodies of their children.

Where Are India’s Dissenting Hindus?

The Wire 2017By harsh_userNovember 11, 2017Leave a comment

In these troubled times, the world’s two largest democracies – India and the US – are increasingly becoming hostile, threatening places for people with Muslim names.

Mourning Rohith Vemula, Who Could Not Rescue Himself From the ‘Fatal Accident’ of His Birth

The Wire 2017By harsh_userJuly 17, 2017Leave a comment

In the summer of 2016, many students sat on a hunger strike in the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. They were protesting the punishment meted out to them by the university authorities for having demonstrated against the hanging of Afzal Guru.

Finding Hate, Despair and Hope on the ‘Karwan-e-Mohabbat’

The Wire 2017By harsh_userJune 10, 2017Leave a comment

On a bumpy bus journey from Giridih to Ramgarh in Jharkhand, trying to type my short update for today. My heart very weighed down in a day with many reminders of why this Karwan was important to attempt.

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.

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