Social

दोपहर होते-होते पटना की हवा भी नफरत की आग में जल रही थी। ठीक शाम 8 बजे मैं जब बोरिंग रोड चौराहे से गुज़र रही थी तब कुछ जाहिल लौंडे सड़कों पर तिरंगा लिए पाकिस्तान #$*& के नारे लगा रहे थे। ऐसे ही मवाली पटना स्टेशन के पास लह्सा…

आप दिल्ली, मुबंई या देश के किसी भी कोने में हो कल से “कश्मीरियों हाय हाय, खून का बदला खून से लेगे” जैसे नारे लगाते लोगों के झुंड से आपका सामना ज़रूर हुआ होगा। कश्मीरियों को हमने बड़ी आसानी से देशद्रोही बना दिया है, देशभर से कश्मीरी…

Data cited by HRD ministry shows professor-level posts for reserved candidates will cease to exist in 21 central universities. NEW DELHI: The Centre, faced with political pressure on the university quota row, has filed a review…

Facing hostility from Hindutva groups and the Indian government, some of them have been forced to seek the relative safety of Bangladesh. On January 18, at least 31 Rohingya refugees from Jammu were arrestedin the no man’s land…

The committee, which has set a deadline for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to appear before it, could have aimed to do much more than just enabling right-wing voices. Round one of the bout between the parliamentary panel on information…

I wrote this piece for a web dossier produced by Heinrich Boell Foundation for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‘ 70th anniversary 2018 – Asma Jahangir – ein bedeutungsvolles Leben, ein inspirierendes Erbe. Sharing now, a year after…

Choking dust, bumpy and dug up roads, broken drainage lines, shoddy infrastructure – for Mumbaikars, this is the daily-lived reality. But in one particular area, the situation seems even grimmer, with potential health ramifications. The…

The refugees had arrived in the northern Indian city to try to rebuild their lives. Now, they are being compelled to flee again. Abdul, a middle-aged Rohingya man, sells odds and ends at a makeshift shop at the Bhatindi refugee…

Even today, a majority of Indian women cannot walk out of unhappy, incompatible or abusive marriages because they don't have the social and economic capital to do so An interesting statistic was bouncing around the Internet the…

On 1 February, Driver’s Colony at Korukkupet in North Chennai – a space where local political meetings are frequently held – wore an entirely different colour. It was witness to a medley of performances, including Bharatanatyam by the…