Monthly Archives: March 2020
Speaking Positivity to Power
Around six hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a three-week nationwide lockdown, on 24 March, he personally asked over twenty owners and editors...
Violence after violence: The politics of narratives over the Delhi pogrom
By Irfan Ahmad
It was not only human lives that were allowed to be annihilated during the days of political violence unleashed in the northeastern localities...
Opinion: The destruction of India’s judicial independence is almost complete
Last week, as India rolled out plans to deal with the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Supreme Court quashed the bail petition of...
In Delhi, First Came the Pogroms. Then Came Coronavirus.
BY YASHRAJ SHARMA
NEW DELHI—Lying on a torn cot inside a tent, 38-year-old Nizamuddin didn’t turn when a cloud of dust landed on him. He closed...
Aurangabad: 17-year-old boy beheaded after brother eloped with upper-caste girl
By SPEED NEWS DESK
A shocking news was reported from Maharashtra’s Aurangabad where a 17-year-old Dalit boy was beheaded after his elder brother elopes with...
Former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Nominated To Rajya Sabha By President
Ranjan Gogoi had retired in November last year after presiding over the Supreme Court for around 13 months.
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India...
Why does Indian media detest Muslims so much?
By Syed Ali Mujtaba
Indian Muslims always get a bad press and the blame is put on the community for not doing anything spectacular that...
School burnt in Delhi riots sealed, owner arrested
New Delhi: The Delhi police have sealed a private school that was torched in the communal violence in north-east Delhi and arrested its owner...
Millions in India Could End Up in Modi’s New Detention Camps
In a river valley near the Himalayas, Purobi Hajong walks her two children to school each day past the vast, muddy construction site of...
Brutalising Innocence – Testimonies of Torture and Police Violence against Minors...
On 12 December 2019, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 – rightly referred to as India’s Nuremberg Law – was passed, leading to widespread protests...
Two Weeks After Mosque Attack, Dwarka Hindus Say ‘We Love Muslims’
Two weeks after the mosque outside Shahjahanabad Apartments in Dwarka Sector 11 was attacked, the area is now witnessing an assertion of communal amity...
Twitter blasts Zee News’ Sudhir Chaudhary on #ZameenJihad
Peddling hate seems to have become Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary’s favorite thing to do. After attempting to give a earful to Delhi residents...
Delhi riots forced thousands of Muslims from their homes, and they’re...
New Delhi — Imran Khan, a 30-year-old laborer, was walking home on February 24 after a hard day's work when a mob in northeast...
