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Hatred unleashed

In the past three years, mob violence, including lynching, particularly by cow vigilantes, has almost become a strategy to intimidate Muslims.

Butchers play cards at a slaughter house which has been shut due to strike protesting the closure of slaughterhouses and meat shops operating without licenses in Lucknow, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, March 31, 2017. After the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh this month on the back of a resounding electoral victory and named a Hindu priest-cum-politician as the state's chief minister, the government began cracking down on illegal slaughterhouses and meat shops. 'The majority of the slaughterhouses and meat shops are running without licenses and government approval. I know in the name of buffalo, cows are being slaughtered in many abattoirs. This should end,' the new chief minister Yogi Adityanath said. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

An industry in crisis

Controversial policy decisions and the activities of cow vigilantes have hit the abattoirs in the country hard, adversely affecting not only meat expo

Divided on support

Dalits are unhappy over the turn of events in the judiciary but many of them find it difficult to support Justice Karnan.

Targeting Dalits

A caste Hindu onslaught on Dalits in a western Uttar Pradesh village triggers a fightback, bringing cheer to marginalised communities who find themsel

Sonipat: CRPF personnel giving gun salute to martyr Naresh during his funeral in Sonipat, Harayana on Wednesday. 25 CRPF jawans were killed in Sukma Naxal attack. PTI Photo (PTI4_26_2017_000248A)

Deadly attack

The Maoist ambush in Sukma in Chhattisgarh, which left 25 CRPF personnel dead, puts the spotlight once again on the troubled region.

Tricks of a trade

Cattle traders see a nexus between cow vigilantes and animal rights organisations in Delhi, where vigilantes unleashed violence in April. In the past

Jammu: Members of Jammu Citizens Forum and Team Jammu during a protest rally against the settlement of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis, in Jammu on Saturday. PTI Photo(PTI4_8_2017_000071B)

Rage against refugees

The sudden rise in hostility against the Rohingya and calls for their deportation underscore the urgent need for a refugee protection framework for In

Under the gun

The essays in the book reflect women’s lived realities under state terror, bearing witness to the lasting impact of militarisation on society.

This photo taken on March 27, 2017 shows Indian police and onlookers surrounding African nationals at a shopping mall in Greater Noida.
Hundreds of residents of an Indian city where a teenage boy died of a suspected drug overdose went on a violent rampage against Africans, using steel chairs to attack shoppers in a local mall. The riots broke out late March 27 after police in Greater Noida, a satellite city of New Delhi, released five African students detained over the youth's death -- saying they had no evidence against them. / AFP PHOTO / -

Targeting Africans

African students face a spate of brutal attacks in Greater Noida following rumours of an Indian boy’s murder.

Data nightmare

Interview with Dipa Sinha, right to food campaigner.

FILE -- Pramod Dass, the director of Bethesda Charitable Endeavors, an Indian partner of the U.S.-based Compassion International that will have to shut down operations, at his office in New Delhi, March 5, 2017. The U.S. and India were at loggerheads on Thursday over Compassion International, which was forced to shut its Indian operations after 48 years over accusations it converted Indians to Christianity. (Poras Chaudhary/The New York Times)

Charity under threat

The stoppage of funds for Christian organisations and the restrictions on their outreach programmes have left the community fearful of what may come i

Resistance and truth-speaking

Interview with Professor Mukul Manglik, teacher at Ramjas College of Delhi University.