‘Please let us give our board exams’

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 […]

Lessons in inhumanity

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 […]

Police abdicated responsibility

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 […]

When death came knocking

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 […]

In the line of fire

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 […]

Be your own bodyguard

The bad news is that international flights have brought the coronavirus to India, especially tourist destinations. The good news is that prevention is in your own hands – literally With 30 cases of people testing positive for the Coronavirus, the government of India has swung into action to control the spread of the virus. Of these, […]

Smoke and fury

From Jaffrabad to Gokulpuri, armed men prowled the streets, homes burned, and police stood watching: An eyewitness account of Mob Raj in North East Delhi on the night of 24th THE BILLOWING smoke could be seen from quite a distance. As I travelled on the metro through East Delhi’s Karkardooma, plumes of grey smoke several […]

No place to nest

A first-of-its-kind study shows that the number of birds in India has seen a sharp decline over the past decade. The situation in Delhi is no different ON FEBRUARY 22, the Florida Keys weather department recorded a  huge patch  of yellow and blue dots moving  together in the sky. What weather experts thought was an […]