One morning, returning from visiting his sister, an 80-year-old Muslim man was lynched in Sitamarhi

Rumours had swirled about a Durga idol being damaged by a stone hurled from a mosque. Zainul Ansari paid the price.

Harsh Mander

· Nov 05, 2019 · 06:30 am

Who killed Rakhi? In UP’s Muzaffarnagar, justice eludes a Dalit girl who died after being raped

Where is justice for the poor and Dalits, her father asked. All evidence of rape, torture and murder was wilfully destroyed by the police and medical officials.

Navsharan Singh

· Oct 22, 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

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

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

‘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

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

A Manipur Muslim family struggles to understand why a lynch mob thought their MBA-son was a thief

Mohamed Farooq Khan ran a small food processing unit. Why would the mob that murdered him in September 2018 believe that he would want to steal a scooter?

Harsh Mander

· Jul 21, 2019 · 06:30 am

As Haryana votes on May 12, a reminder of a troubling death in a police encounter in Mewat

Several eyewitnesses say Arshad Khan was shot dead at point-blank range in February. This brazen act indicates police are assured of their impunity.

Harsh Mander

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John Dayal

· May 11, 2019 · 06:30 am

New justice of New India: The mob attack on Gurugram Muslim family follows a sickening pattern

As in almost every case of hate crime, the police filed a criminal complaint against the victims. They are now utterly broken.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 01, 2019 · 07:00 am

In Bihar, Muslims are facing increasing hostility and hatred after 2017

The state is proof that communal tension between Hindus and Muslims is not spontaneous. It thrives only because of politically engineered polarisation.

Natasha Badhwar

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Harsh Mander

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Navsharan Singh

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John Dayal

· Mar 17, 2019 · 08:00 am