Remembering 2020 Delhi riots
Karwan-e-Mohabbat held a commemoration ceremony on 26.02.2025 marking five years since the violence in Delhi in February 2020 in the presence of victim and survivor families. Introductory Remarks The event,…
Delhi Riots
After Four Years of Delhi Riots: In Search of Healing and Justice
by Swati Draik, Sumit Kumar Gupta and Badre Alam Khan A memorial tribute on the fourth anniversary of the Delhi 2020 communal carnage was organized by Karwan-e- Mohabbat (people campaign…
Delhi Riot: Stop filing of charge sheet on the basis of fabricated evidence and false confessions
To: Mr. SN Srivastava, IPS Commissioner of Police, Delhi Police Headquarters, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi Subject: Urgently stop the motivated and malicious investigation and carry out bona fide investigation…
Flawed Investigation into the Delhi Riots
The Forum for Constitutional Rights and Democratic Freedoms (FCRDF) was constituted in August, 2020, after discussion among its Principal Members, comprising both individuals and organizations, all representing different constituencies. All…
We The Citizens Object To The Manner Of The Delhi Riots Probe
Over 1000 citizens from all walks of life including, filmmaker Aparna Sen; former Culture Secretary culture Jawahar Sircar; Historian Ramchandra Guha; former Chairperson, Delhi Minority Commission Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan; Former…
Delhi Riots: Is this an investigation into a “conspiracy” or is the investigation itself a conspiracy?
Statement released by Activists of Anti-CAA-NRC-NPR movement, Apoorvanand, Harsh Mander, Yogendra Yadav, Kawalpreet and Umar Khalid questioning the malicious investigation of the Delhi riots by Delhi police This press conference…
A Loss Untold: How I lost my Dehli in 2020
Dil ki basti purani Dilli hai Jo bhi guzra hai uss ne loota hai (My heart is [like] the Delhi of yore Whoever has passed through it, has looted it)…
DU Professor Apoorvanand Questioned By Delhi Police, Phone Seized
Delhi University professor Apoorvanand was questioned on Monday by Delhi police in connection with Delhi riots. Apoorvanand said his phone was seized for investigation and he spent five hours with…
Home Minister Et Al Made Provocative, Threatening Speeches: Statutory Body’s Report On Delhi Violence
Co-Written by Dr. P. S. Sahni & Shobha Aggarwal “If crime itself assumes authority and power And hunts down people, holding them criminals, Everyone endowed with a mouth who keeps…
Minority panel report, faulting police & BJP leaders for Delhi riots, gets a lukewarm media response
The mainstream media – particularly Hindi newspapers – has downplayed the news about the release of a fact-finding report by Delhi Minorities Commission on February Delhi riots, 2020. Releasing…
The Burden of Death
Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’, a compelling account of Nigerian Civil War and the history of Biafra, not only details, from his perspective, the events that lead to the…
Who are the terrorists in the coup’d etat of President Trump visit?
It was a coup and the unraveling of events now in 2020 Delhi and in Gujarat genocide of 2002 has striking resemblances. The inductive and deductive process of reasoning…
Delhi Violence: Genesis of Carnage
They say ‘history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce’. In case of India, communal violence not only keeps repeating itself, the pattern of the tragedy…
Fearlessly Forever !
Today, it rained in Delhi. Tonight, the rains would wash the stains Of blood on the streets filled with pain. The earth would absorb the red And little green grass…
Two Leading Malayalam News Channels Banned From Airing For 48 Hours For Reporting The Delhi Riots
Two leading Malayalam news channels, Asianet News and Media One and are banned from airing for 48 hours from 7.30 PM this night on account of their reporting on Delhi…
Dehi Riots: Khureji Crackdown Fact Finding Report
Date of Visit: 29th February 2020 Team: Ashutosh, Harjot, Harshita, Nasir and Rahul Brief Overview of the Situation in Khureji Khas Since the 14thof January 2020, Khureji Khas in North…
Over 350 Acadamics Issue Statement on the anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi
Over last few months we have witnessed a reawakening of the democratic ethos led by Muslim women all across the country. These near-uninterrupted protests against the passage of the discriminatory…
New Delhi and More
It is 7:00 AM in Houston February 27th, the sun is bright and the breeze is cold. As I sit in the patio like I do every day, I go…
Delhi Riots: Muslim Youth Forced To Sing National Anthem In Viral Video Dies
A Muslim youth, Faizan who was seen lying injured on the street with a few others as policemen made them sing the national anthem in a video that went viral,…
Delhi riots: The chilling loneliness of their grief
Communal Violence Bill was brought by the UPA to ensure accountability from public servants as per article 14 and 21 of the Constitution. But it was dropped in February 2014.…
Is Delhi’s Anti-Muslim pogrom a plan to forcefully implement All India NRC?
(The planned attack on Muslims in Delhi 2020, is similar to Anti-Muslim Gujarat riots 2002, then CM and now PM were silent for 3 days) Muslims for Independence of India:…
Harrowing hearts and sowing hatred? Spare a thought for harvest season also!
Majority community must understand that hate crimes breed retaliatory hate crimes. It would be a big mistake to believe growing trend of targeted violence against Muslims to be infertile. Hours…
Blame Rests With Right-Wing For Fomenting Riots In Delhi
When I say that the right wing is responsible for the anti-Muslim riots happening in Delhi, it means that the right wing, aka the RSS and BJP, its media and…
Will vandalism, arson, killings stop in India?
The germs of arson, killings and vandalism run through blood of Hindutva organizations. There is no denying the fact that the Hindutva outfits got extraordinary power to organize communal violence…
Call for Global Action on Communal Violence in New Delhi
This is an urgent call for global action. For the last three days, large violent mobs of right-wing Hindu nationalists have unleashed a spate of violent attacks in Delhi, which…
Delhi: Poison Seeds, Bloody Harvest
On Tuesday February 25 morning, even as 35 companies of paramilitary forces were deployed in North-Eastern Delhi and Commissioner of Police Amulya Patnaik claimed that the situation was under…
As Delhi burns, its many Neros fiddle and twiddle
It is hardly difficult to notice the irony that the two most powerful people in Delhi have presided over, abetted and prolonged some of the worst mass-violence in India -…
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