Amnesty International organized a vigil in Porto on May 6 evening to “illuminate the darkness seen in India today” and that “silences dissent and the repression of human rights defenders”. Instead of people, the vigil featured a candle for each of the nearly 1,000 people who signed an online petitionContinue Reading
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on April 18 wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, listing five suggestions to tackle the Covid-19 vaccine shortage in India, which is currently fighting the second wave of the deadly virus. The former PM acknowledged the cloud of uncertainty among the people ofContinue Reading
For decades, the world has turned a blind eye to India’s abysmal human rights record. This approach draws from a broad perception of India as a strategic ally. For one, the United States, like much of the global community, sees India as an important counterweight to China. They are theContinue Reading
By M K George Rome: It is a borrowed title, from Thomas L. Friedman. He was writing about the U S as it went for elections soon. He feels that the country has been fed with lies and damned lies for four years and the nation has been so dividedContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jan 14, 2014: A prayer for unity and communal harmony and a formal appeal to revoke the amended citizenship act will be communicated to the Prime Minister through the West Bengal governor. This was decided on January 13 at a meeting of school principals of Christian educational institutions, priestsContinue Reading
By Annie Gowen Mahaban — In the year since an extremist Hindu monk was tapped to lead one of India’s biggest states, the country’s Muslim cattle traders have seen their lives change in ways they could not have imagined. First mobs of Hindu vigilantes emboldened by the monk’s victory beganContinue Reading
By Rana Ayyub Mumbai: I work as an investigative and political journalist. Two years back, I published a book — after going undercover for eight months — about the complicity of Narendra Modi, now prime minister of India, and Amit Shah, now president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, inContinue Reading
Dhenkanal: About 20 villagers questioning Christians gathered for worship in a home in Odisha state, India were animists who worshipped objects in nature and other gods, but Hindu nationalists had led them there. “Why have you left your ancestral faith and begun following the Christian faith?” a few of themContinue Reading
Modi is a smart man. So, what explains his strange silence?
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By VINDU GOEL and SUHASINI RAJ ALIGARH — Signs and banners for Paytm, India’s biggest digital payments service, festoon Pooran Singh’s cellphone shop, where people drop in all day to add data or talk time to their prepaid phones. Yet few of these people actually use Paytm at the store,Continue Reading