New Delhi, Feb.21, 2020: For Dina M. Siddiqi, a professor of anthropology at New York University, the women of Shaheen Bagh have changed who speaks for Muslims in India. “What has really been undermined is going to the usual guys about what Muslims think in India and what they prioritise,”Continue Reading
By Anis Ansari Lucknow, Feb 20, 2020: The unprecedented wave of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR) has shown unthinkable secular unity at a time when the Centre was trying to extend the infamous ‘divide andContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Tuticorin, Feb 7, 2020: A fishery is an important sector in India. It employs millions of people and contributes to the food security of the country. Fishing communities in India are not homogenous, as they belong to different castes. These communities have distinct social, cultural governanceContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani New Delhi, Feb. 4, 2020: As democracy is seeping in slowly all over the world, there is an organization which is monitoring the degree of democracy in the individual countries, The Economist Intelligence Unit. As such in each country there are diverse factors which on one hand workContinue Reading
Andreas Thonhauser Most Christians in India will remember the year 2019 as challenging, to say the least. Religious minorities in general and Christians specifically suffered from an increasing number of attacks. Hindu nationalism, claiming to purge India of everything non-Hindu, was a decisive issue in the general election. Soon after,Continue Reading
By Harsh Mander New Delhi, Dec 29, 2019: The nation’s slide into fear, hate and bigotry did not begin ex nihilo five years ago. It’s the climax of a hundred-year campaign against the kind and pluralistic ethos of the freedom struggle A hundred years have passed since a battle wasContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ The nation is on fire! The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) which was promulgated on December 12 after the President of India gave his assent to it after it was passed by both the lower and upper houses of Parliament. The act is blatantly discriminatory,Continue Reading
By Jason Keith Fernandes Hindu nationalism seems poised to rule the roost in India for the near future. How do Catholics in India deal with this crisis? In May 2018, Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi, wrote a letter inviting Catholics in his archdiocese to begin a regime of prayer andContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ This past year from December 2018, had two significant 70th anniversaries: first, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR, 10 December 1948 and then, of the promulgation of the Constitution of India (26 November 2019). It is quite certain that the makers of theContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Ragabpur, Dec 9, 2019: Human Rights Day is celebrated everywhere on December 10. This year the Dalit and Adivasi women of different associations in West Bengal gathered on December 9 to celebrate the Human Rights Day. Sampurna Nari Kalyan Sangathan along with Nari Mukhti Chetana Sangathan andContinue Reading
