Hate & Harmony

Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers

Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject

Meghalaya: Catholic church vandalised, statues desecrated

Incident took place in a Catholic church in North Garo Hills; case registered, but no arrests so far

A half baked secularism: Teesta Setalvad on caste and communalism

Drawing on the subcontinent's history of faith entwined politics and the resultant consolidation of power in the hands of the few, Teesta Setalvad invokes Ambedkar, Periyar and uses her own engagement with communalism to argue that the battle for secularism in India simply cannot be won without addressing the issue of caste. First published in Communalism Combat in April 1999.

Rectify this horrendously wrong decision: Ex-bureaucrats to SC on remission to convicts in Bilkis Bano case

134 former civil servants under the aegis of Constitutional Conduct Group urge Supreme Court to revoke remission of sentence granted to convicts

VHP meet stresses blanket ban on conversion

Chief Guest Jagatguru Swami Vasudevanand Saraswati asked saints to awaken Hindu society for promotion and protection of Hindus

Bilkis Bano: Hundreds Gather at Jantar Mantar Against Remission of Sentence to 11 Convicts

Protests were held across cities by rights groups, academicians and students.

We will win the day: Teesta Setalvad on the battle for the idea of India

As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends...

Corporal Punishment for Blasphemy or Apostasy not in line with Quranic Ethos?

The present concept of blasphemy as an offence has been developed by Muslim jurists in the post Prophetic period.

Remission to Bilkis Bano’s Rapists Offends Gandhi’s Ideas of Swaraj

There are many reasons why the remission in the Bilkis Bano rape-murder cases stand apart. Not least is the need to bring consistency in the State’s words and deeds, and correct arbitary actions.

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Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers

Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject