The Bijnor police are unable to give consistent versions of the incidents in which two young men were shot – one fatally At Om Raj Singh’s freshly cemented home in Nehtaur in UP’s Bijnor district, family members sat on the dimly-lit verandah. Singh was recovering from injuries in a Meerut hospital. His brother, Rajvir Singh, […]

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Redevelopment of the sarkari complex that stretches from India Gate to Rashtrapati Bhawan will make the present sandstone a part of history. An expert has called it a futile and unwanted exercise Exactly 108 years ago, on December 12, 1911 at the coronation of King George V as Emperor of India, he declared, “We have […]

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A journalist’s account of what happened after she was whisked away from Red Fort and thrown onto a bus with Umar Khalid It was a crazy day. What was supposed to be a day reporting on demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Delhi turned into a confrontation with the police, my eventual detention along […]

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Mainstream media reinforces the alienation felt by people who live on the margins by ignoring them or reporting on their problems through lenses blurred with ignorance and prejudice The MEDIA’S response to the December 15  violence at Jamia Milia Islamia was no thanks to the so-called “national”, privately owned news channels located in the capital, […]

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Many of them have memories of the Emergency and they don’t want to see it playing out again “The Emergency then was not as bad as this, an undeclared one. They are creating a wall between people. I don’t know what they think.” Ghayasuddin, 70, stands shoulder-to-shoulder with youths and students in the biting cold […]

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The police brutality at Aligarh Muslim University on December 15 left many students severely injured At the Morison Court hostel in Aligarh Muslim University, Faizal Hasan, the former president of the AMU Students’ Union, talked agitatedly into a phone. Speaking to Shamsul Haque, AMU’s dean of students’ welfare, Hasan said angrily, “If anything happens to […]

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60 petitions have been filed so far, and counting The President’s ratification of the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, on December 12 triggered a slew of petitions in the Supreme Court less than 12 hours later. By midday, at least a dozen petitions had been filed challenging the constitutional validity of it. The matter — almost […]

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The police attacked university students as if war had been declared on campuses, fueling fear and panic After the government got the Citizenship Amendment Act passed by Parliament, the whole country erupted in vigorous protests. It all started with the peaceful protests at Jamia Milia Islamia, conducted by the students, which suddenly became violent, when […]

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