The overwhelming sentiment in the riot-hit areas is a feeling of being wronged by the state. Yet communal harmony survives, holding out hope for the future AS THE dead bodies of the victims of the communal clashes in North East Delhi arrived, the family members became inconsolable. Theirs is not a cry of grief but […]

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The family of Mohammed Danish claims he was detained for over four days without food or access to a toilet. He was then shifted to a juvenile centre EARLIER THIS week, we received a lead that a 17-year-old boy, Mohammad Danish, had been missing in North East Delhi since February 24. The violence in the […]

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Molested, beaten and in shock, the mothers and minors of North East Delhi relive the day everything changed AL HIND hospital has been inundated with victims of the riots which engulfed North East Delhi from the evening of February 23 to the 27th. In these five hellish days, the hospital in the Muslim-dominated area also […]

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ALONG WITH the destruction of schools, the riots also affected those students who were going to appear for their 10th and 12th Board exams. We met many of those, and their only request was that the government takes cognisance of their situation, delay the exams and provide them with the much-needed course books destroyed in […]

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What do schools have to do with religion, ask the students of institutions which were deliberately targeted by mobs and burnt down to the ground MEENAKSHI HAS soot on her face from looking through the remains of what was once her home. The 12-year-old looks despondent when we meet her at the school where she […]

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Former commissioners of police express their disappointment in the way riots in Delhi were handled. They stop short of calling it ‘deliberate’ but surely ‘avoidable’ had the cops performed their duty LANES IN riot-affected North East Delhi look war-torn, nothing but half-burnt houses and mangled automobiles remain on the streets, the devastation staring you in […]

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The victims of the Delhi riots were no criminals, they were ordinary people going about their daily life. they were killed on their way back from work, others while coming back home after visiting their relatives, some who had gone out to buy milk, another who had gone shopping for a wedding; many were also […]

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As a journalist, I’ve had many experiences, but reporting on the ground during the riots was both scary and exciting at the same time When I first read on the Internet about the violence in North East Delhi, I was at home enjoying my weekend. I thought that it was just a part of the ongoing […]

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