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Dehumanisation in a Time of War Hysteria

The loyalty-treachery divide in India silences voices of peace at home. State propaganda merges with public discourse, and war’s influence permeates civilian thought. By dehumanising people into…

▶21-May-2025

Anand Teltumbde

Essay

India and Germany: A Two-Way Learning Street

There is much that India can learn from Germany's remembrance of the Holocaust, though the insensitivity towards the Palestinians is a smear. Germany too can learn from India, for while India…

▶27-Feb-2025

Harsh Mander

Dowry Murders: Lingering Tragedy, Emerging Hope

The strongest dowry murder rates in India correlate with skewed sex ratios – mainly in the North. These rates have fallen fastest where bride shortages are most severe. Hopefully, this signals a…

▶27-Feb-2025

Peter Mayer

Why White Americans see the Brutality of Hamas but do not see the Brutalities Inflicted on the Palestinians

The reason why many decent Americans do not see the tragedy of the Palestinians is that Israel is doing to Palestine what white Americans did to the Native Americans.

▶16-Oct-2023

Tabish Khair

Essay

Why has the Rule of Law become so Fragile?

‘There is law that applies to certain criminal activities, which are usually connected to older, corporal forms of power and profit, but there is a clear lack of law, or its applicability, to newer…

▶13-Sep-2023

Tabish Khair

The Fires of Nuh

The recent communal violence in Nuh and the government's punitive measures have further dispossessed its Muslim residents, already victims of cow vigilantes and of poverty.

▶14-Aug-2023

Harsh Mander

In Manipur's Horrifying Video, a Reflection of India's Indifference

Public reactions to the horrific video from Manipur cannot stop with empathy. Will that horrific image jolt our humanity and bestir an apathetic state?

▶26-Jul-2023

Ipsita Chakravarty

Breaking the Silence on the Harm to Sportswomen

The nation celebrates with gusto the joys and exhilarations of sporting moments. But it falls silent when the powerful are interrogated for violating the rights of sportspersons under their care,…

▶14-Jun-2023

Meena Gopal

The Quiet Violence of the Remaking of Mumbai

An online exhibition on the transformation of Mumbai explores how the marginalised populations in the city have experienced the upheavals and how they have responded.

▶25-Jul-2022

Himanshu Burte, Amita Bhide, Lalitha Kamath, Ratoola Kundu

How Should We Remember the Violence and Suffering of Partition?

"What does it mean then to remember the ‘horror’ of partition at a time when identities are so polarised. Do we remember only what was done to us, leaving out all that we did to others and to…

▶13-Oct-2021

Urvashi Butalia

Violence

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