In Mainpuri school, first lesson for Scheduled Caste students: Keep your plates apart
By Asad Rehman
Sixty of the 80 children at Daudapur Government Primary School in Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh belong to Scheduled Castes. But it...
The Police Did Not Bungle in Assam, They Committed a Horrific Crime
By N.C. Asthana
The horrific video of the police firing in Dholpur, Sipajhar, Assam has left the nation stunned in disbelief. The absolutely wanton manner...
Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: A Prime Minister determined to flout the nation’s consensus
By A.G. NOORANI
Professor Hans J. Morganthau, one of the greatest philosophers on politics among nations and a recognised pillar of the school of realpolitik, pointed...
Eviction, identity and shifting sands: A ground report from Sipajhar, Assam
By Syeda A
On Friday morning, over 50 Bengali Muslims boarded a boat in the Dhalpur char of Garukhuti, a village in the Sipajhar tehsil...
“That is just 30 seconds,” Assam CM on viral video of killing Muslim man
A day after the Assam government’s forced eviction of hundreds of Bengali Muslim families from their homes accusing them of illegally occupying government land...
Sheikh Farid, Class 7 student among shot dead by Assam police with bullet in...
The two Muslims killed in police firing towards the demonstration against the forced eviction drive in Sipajhar in Assam’s Darrang district, included 32-year-old Moinul Hoque, the...
Violence during Assam eviction drive is born out of divisive politics. Govt must reach...
An eviction drive that ends in the death of two people — one a 12-year-old — injuries to policemen, and macabre footage of a...
Assam: Death of a 12-year-old and CM’s shockingly cavalier statement
By Umanand Jaiswal
The shock came in two waves.
First, one of the official victims of the police firing in Assam’s Darrang on Thursday was a...
Karnataka: Dalit made to spend Rs 11,000 on feast for entering temple
KOPPAL: Close on the heels of a Dalit family being penalised Rs 25,000 over their two-year-old son entering a temple in Kustagi, a Dalit...
16-yr-old Dalit girl abducted, raped in Uttar Pradesh
By Press Trust of India
Fatehpar (UP): A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly abducted and raped in the Jehanabad area here, police said on Saturday.
The family...
Rajasthan: Dalit student jumps before running train over harassment by ‘influential’ classmates
Jaipur: In a tragic incident, a college student, belonging to the Dalit community, allegedly ended his life by jumping in front of a moving...
Three Booked for Assaulting Dalit Mourners, Creating Ruckus at Funeral in Maharashtra’s Palghar
An offence has been registered against three persons for allegedly creating a ruckus and assaulting mourners during a cremation at a village in Maharashtra's...
Backstory: The Paper Trail Behind the Assam Eviction Violence
By Pamela Philipose
The violence that marked the eviction drive on the Muslim villagers of Gorukhuti village that lies near Sipaghar town on September 23...
