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In Madhya Pradesh, priests attacked for singing carols bear witness to erosion of religious freedom

Scroll 2018By harsh_userDecember 10, 2018Leave a comment

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.

Hadiya has been denied the right to choose her faith

Hindustan Times 2017By harsh_userDecember 8, 2018Leave a comment

Akhila Ashokan, a woman from Kerala, while studying homeopathy, felt drawn to Islamic teachings after she shared an apartment with two Muslim students.

Terms of forgiveness

The Indian Express 2018By harsh_userDecember 7, 2018Leave a comment

Amidst the clamour for retribution, we must listen carefully to the gentle voices that talk of forgiveness and compassion. These alone light the way to locate, deep within ourselves, our own capacities for goodness.

The dark side of humanity and legality: A glimpse inside Assam’s detention centres for ‘foreigners’

Scroll 2018By harsh_userDecember 7, 2018Leave a comment

The people of Assam are sitting atop a smouldering volcano, one that threatens to erupt into catastrophic suffering and injustice.

In Uttar Pradesh, Dalits and Muslims must endure caste hatred, state bloodletting, denial of justice

Scroll 2017By harsh_userDecember 11, 2017Leave a comment

On September 11, Karwan e Mohabbat regrouped in Tilak Vihar, Delhi, where widows of the 1984 Sikh massacre were settled more than three decades ago, and set off to its next destination. We reached Kandla in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district past midnight.

India’s deportation of seven Rohingya men to Myanmar is a profound failure of public compassion

Scroll 2018By harsh_userDecember 10, 2017Leave a comment

On October 4, the Indian government deported seven Rohingya men to Myanmar. Hours before they crossed over, their return was validated by India’s Supreme Court.

Who’s most guilty of the Kathua barbarity? Modi, Sangh Parivar, ‘secular parties’ – and all of us

Scroll 2018By harsh_userDecember 10, 2017Leave a comment

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.

Where fear is still a reality

Hindustan Times 2016By harsh_userDecember 19, 2016Leave a comment

It is eight years since communal violence swept the second poorest, deeply-forested district of Odisha, Kandhamal. We must not allow the erasure of this hate violence from public memory, because the suffering and displacement of the tribal and Dalit Christians targeted by the communal violence…

Chipko movement to water conservation: Anupam Mishra leaves behind a rich legacy of knowledge

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 17, 2016Leave a comment

Gently and with the quiet dignity that characterised the way he lived his entire life, Anupam Mishra left the world on December 19, 2016. He was 68, felled after a long and painful battle against cancer.

‘If Sardarji had been alive…’ How anti-Sikh lynch mobs changed Lachmi’s life on October 31, 1984

Scroll 2016By harsh_userOctober 31, 2016Leave a comment

It would be hard to find a building more burdened with suffering and memory in all of Delhi. And yet, if you walked past it, you would hardly turn your head to look at it again. There was nothing that distinguished it from the tens of thousands of other urban cages anywhere in the country.

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