Incidents of violence targetting the minorities have become routine in the last 16 months. Prime Minister Modi’s government has done little to shun the belief that the culprits don’t enjoy its patronage
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
In India, when godmen and godwomen are unmasked, their popularity only increases
Sandeep Kumar Delhi
Rohini Salian’s revelations underline that the nation is in the hands of a muscular and hyper-Hindu nationalism
Manisha Sethi Delhi
Small towns wake up early. In Dinanagar, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, terrorists woke up India at 5.30 am when they began shooting innocent people. A few minutes later, the news channels had found a juicy bone. They began to run breaking news about how terrorists had struck in Punjab, which had been free of violence for the last two decades. Shortly thereafter, the channels announced that the terrorists had occupied the police station of Dinanagar and were shooting from inside.
Why must Yakub hang? There is little evidence of his direct involvement in the blasts
Manisha Sethi Delhi
The increasingly hostile environment for journalists, sanctioned by official inaction, means muscle may win out over truth
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
When The Indian Express reported that National Investigating Agency (NIA) officials told the Special Public Prosecutor in the Malegaon bomb blast case, Rohini Sailan, to quietly withdraw from the case, not many were really surprised. The report suggested that the agency official told Sailan that, after the new government took over in Delhi in 2014, there was little reason to pursue the case vigorously, as the political environment had changed.
From the CP encounter in 1997 to the recent encounter of Manoj Vashisht, Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association sees a pattern to these killings carried out by the Delhi Police
India should learn from its neighbour, Pakistan, about what it should not do to preserve social harmony and communal amity
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
New Juvenile Justice Bill will not improve public safety