So many Ramayanas: A sehrabandhi melody now unsung and other scenes from Kumaon’s Ramlilas

A conversation with Himanshu Joshi, who has spent more than a decade working on a film about performances of the epic in the region.

Radhika Bordia

· Oct 25, 2020 · 02:22 pm

How the Sangh has waged war to erase India’s many Ramayanas in its quest for power

Multiple strands are inconvenient for fundamentalist forces. Their triumph lies in framing a single unchallenged narrative.

Radhika Bordia

· Aug 11, 2020 · 06:30 am

How an inadvertent error in the ‘Paatal Lok’ credits led me to a Dalit Bhakti poet in Gujarat

The song was written not by Guru Nanak as listed but by Nanak Das, a 19th-century poet from Saurashtra.

Radhika Bordia

· Jun 21, 2020 · 11:30 am

Month after video of Delhi Police assault sparked outrage, four survivors have no hope for justice

A fifth man died after the beating. But the two FIRs related to the case seem like they are directed at burying the possibility of any investigation.

Radhika Bordia

· Mar 28, 2020 · 02:16 pm

First, mobs attacked protest sites. Now, Delhi police has threatened to evict them, say protestors

At the oldest protest site in North East Delhi, women have continued their demonstration even after communal violence ravaged the area.

Radhika Bordia

· Mar 03, 2020 · 01:20 pm

This young Muslim woman took us around a riot-hit Delhi locality. The view was revealing

Chandbagh is one of the most devastated areas in violence-scarred North East Delhi.

Radhika Bordia

· Feb 29, 2020 · 06:30 am

Lucknow lawyer walks straight out of jail to join protest: ‘The women have taken up the challenge’

An interview with Mohammed Shoaib, the 72-year-old civil liberties lawyer who spent a month in jail, arrested in a case related to the new citizenship law.

Radhika Bordia

· Jan 20, 2020 · 08:12 am

JNU attacks: Four questions for the Delhi Police about its actions on Sunday night

It failed to prevent the entry of masked, armed men into the campus and stood by quietly as a mob roughed up journalists and politicians at the gate.

Radhika Bordia

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Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jan 06, 2020 · 02:02 pm

Uttar Pradesh human rights defenders – one Muslim, the other Dalit – arrested for protesting CAA

Many see a clear plan by the Adityanath government to target the Rihai Manch, which offers legal aid to marginal communities.

Radhika Bordia

· Dec 30, 2019 · 09:00 am

Muslim anger, Hindu support: In Uttar Pradesh, police rampage deepens old faultlines

Conversations in Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut and Bijnor suggest that the BJP is reaping political dividends but faces one big challenge: rising economic distress.

Shoaib Daniyal

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Radhika Bordia

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Supriya Sharma

· Dec 29, 2019 · 09:14 am

No criminal record, no protest, yet Muslim men made to sign bonds in Uttar Pradesh villages

One of them is a university topper. The men fear this could mark them as criminals for life.

Radhika Bordia

· Dec 27, 2019 · 11:15 am

How a champion NCC aero-modeller is reviving the forgotten instruments of the Sikh Gurus

Bhai Baldeep has made it his mission to keep the rabab and the taus from sliding into oblivion.

Radhika Bordia

· Nov 12, 2019 · 02:07 pm