Why a woman in Udaipur refused to strike a compromise after her husband died cleaning a septic tank

The man who had hired Sukhlal didn’t even visit the dead man’s home to inquire about his family. But he wanted them to withdraw their police complaint.

Harsh Mander

, 

Vidit Verma

 & 

Sonal Sharma

· Oct 11, 2019 · 06:30 am

Gandhi’s talisman and a migrant worker’s lynching in Bihar

‘I could not forget the faces of Rudhi Devi and her children, the faces which Gandhiji had advised us to recall in times of uncertainty and confusion.’

Harsh Mander

· Oct 07, 2019 · 06:30 am

As three Dalits lay dying from toxic fumes in an Agra sewer, no one would even give them water

Baby Valmiki recounts the death of her husband Raju and his two companions in 2012.

Harsh Mander

, 

Sonal Sharma

 & 

Vidit Verma

· Sep 27, 2019 · 06:30 am

How the dreams of a family man from Muzaffarnagar were lynched 2,500 km away in Tripura

Zahid Khan worked in the North Eastern state for 20 years, hoping to give his children a better life. A mob claiming he was a kidnapper changed it all abruptly.

Harsh Mander

· Sep 21, 2019 · 06:30 am

A woman in MP recounts the trauma of watching her husband die in a tank full of faeces

Chinta Bai lost her son to a snakebite and her husband to the inexorable practice of manual scavenging.

Harsh Mander

, 

Sonal Sharma

 & 

Vidit Verma

· Sep 13, 2019 · 06:30 am

Four months after Oraon man is lynched in Jharkhand, bafflement at how neighbours could be so brutal

Prakash Lakra and three friends were waiting to skin a bull that had died a natural death. An upper-caste mob claimed they’d killed the animal.

Harsh Mander

· Sep 06, 2019 · 06:30 am

A decade after her husband died cleaning a septic tank, a woman in MP struggles to keep going

The sight of her three-year-old son and her infant daughter reminded Rekha Devi of the reason to live.

Harsh Mander

, 

Sonal Sharma

 & 

Vidit Verma

· Aug 23, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Our life is worth less than a cow’: When the Gujarat police beat an Adivasi farmer to death

In 2017, Kodarbahi Gamar was thrashed in public by the police on allegations that he and three others had slaughtered a bull.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

In Agra, fear of eviction stalls the fight for justice for a man who died after cleaning septic tank

Raju died even before his 21st birthday. His father is afraid that the family will lose their home if they file a complaint against those who hired him.

Harsh Mander

, 

Sonal Sharma

 & 

Vidit Verma

· Aug 13, 2019 · 07:30 am

Sonipat: Years after three relatives were murdered for an intercaste marriage, one man seeks justice

Despite death threats from the Jats who killed his brother and parents, a young Dalit believes he owes it to his community to keep up the legal fight.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 04, 2019 · 08:00 am

Lynching of young Muslim entrepreneur in Manipur last year shows such acts are carefully planned

Khan was accused of being a thief, which fits in with the stereotype of local Manipuri Muslims.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 02, 2019 · 03:56 pm

‘No one came to help’: How a father and teenaged son in Madhya Pradesh died cleaning a septic tank

They hoped to earn some quick money before a family reunion. But they were not given enough time to let poisonous gasses escape before beginning their task.

Harsh Mander

, 

Sonal Sharma

 & 

Vidit Verma

· Jul 26, 2019 · 09:00 am