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‘They wanted to teach a lesson in terror’
As right-wing mobs ran riot at JNU on the night of January 5, students allege they were victims of a targeted attack inside the university IN THE middle of a Delhi winter, the temperature at Jawaharlal Nehru University on the evening of January 5 rose dramatically. At around 6 pm that day, a violent mob […]
Caught in crossfire?
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, […]
If Central Vista changes, a valuable heritage will be lost
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 […]
‘I was detained and given a joyride by Delhi Police’
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 […]
Believe the disempowered
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, […]
‘We stand with the youth’
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 […]
Beaten, bruised, pelted with stun grenades: Aligarh students recall a night of horror
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 […]
Pleas in court
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 […]