By Matters India Reporter Cuttack, Aug 17, 2023: A Catholic nun, who survived gangrape, has gone back to a court to give evidence after a gap of nine years. The nun, who cannot be named because of legal reasons, appeared before the district and sessions judge court in Cuttack onContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Daringbadi, May 19, 2023: People in Odisha’s Kandhamal district are elated after an infant at the time of the 2008 anti-Christian violence successfully completed the state’s matriculation examination this year. “I am happy because my Lord Jesus protected me and my mother from Hindu fundamentalists during theContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, March 25, 2023: Kandhamal Human Rights Awards for activists and groups in defence of human rights, democracy and secularism in India were presented March 23 at Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The Award for individual category has gone to Shakil Ahmed, aContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal, Oct 28, 2022: Kandhamal Collector Ashis Ishwar Patil has promised to comply with a court order to give compensation to a kin of a Catholic priest, who died during the 2008 anti-Christian violence. “I have received the High Court Order and asked some clarifications and documents,”Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Sept 5, 2022: A state-level peace and harmony convention was held in Odisha August 25 on the 14th anniversary of the Kandhamal communal massacre in this eastern Indian state. For new readers, the 2008 Kandhamal communal violence stands out as an organized attack. It was theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: The anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal of 2008 is “still fresh in people’s memory,” Justice A P Shah, former chief justice of Delhi High Court and a former chairman of the Law Commission of India, told a webinar on August 25. Justice Shah was delivering theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Phulbani, October 31, 2019: Kandhamal District Collector Brunda D has set November 30 as the last date to claim additional compensation for the 2008 violence survivors as per the Supreme Court order. In an advertisement published in local Odia papers October 31, she said, “This isContinue Reading
By Uddalak Mukherjee The night was not quite a night of long knives. Ten years ago, the knives — a metaphorical allusion to murder, rape and arson — were unsheathed for months, from August to December, in Odisha’s hilly Kandhamal region. It was one of the worst instances of targetedContinue Reading
There has been little effort at rebuilding livesContinue Reading
Kerala has suffered a damage of 300 billion rupees in the worst floods to hit the state in a centuryContinue Reading