The Viral Politics of Hate and Violence
The grainy video plays on loop across TV channels and social media - a crazed mob dragging a helpless Muslim man across the street, mercilessly beating him as he cries…
Lynching
Abhorrent Aberrations: The “New Normal” in Modi’s “New India”
Last week, video emerged showing what was — at least, what one hopes was — the tail end of a wild night experienced by a seasoned political activist in India’s…
Lynching of Muslims in India
There are two festivals in India when Muslim killings invariably take place each year under the current political dispensation. First is Ramnauvi, a Hindu religious festival and second is Idul…
On Indian Lynching Data
For many days I am searching for the latest data on Indian lynching incidents. And I find that a host of websites listed at the end of this piece are…
Cow vigilantes strike again and burn two Muslims alive in Haryana
Some cow vigilante belonging to Bajrang Dal kidnapped Junaid (35) and Naasir (25) when they were traveling from Bharatpur Rajasthan to Bhiwani in neighboring Haryana and burnt them alive on…
Law’s Limits: The Passage of the Antilynching Bill
In 1900, Representative George Henry White of North Carolina, the sole Black law maker in Congress at the time, dared to introduce legislation (HR 6963) that would make lynching a…
From Muslims to Christians: Impunity Drives Expanding Hindu Nationalist Violence
Today is the third day of my seven-day hunger-strike for the persecuted Christians of India. It has now been over 60 hours since I ate anything. CLICK TO VIEW ON…
Combating Hate in a Plural Society: Scattered attacks on Muslims
India’s diversity has been amazing as different cultures, religions, languages and ethnicities had been living here, cheek by jowl, from last many centuries. Bhakti-Sufi Saints and then the freedom movement…
Hate — impact on daily life
"Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born.…
Bollywood Star Survives COVID, But Stokes India’s Lynching Pandemic
This Eid, as India’s latest known lynching target Lukman Khan fought for his life, India’s most famous film star Amitabh Bachchan promised mob violence against a Twitter heckler. In Gurgaon, the shining IT satellite of India’s capital, Lukman…
Lives of Marginalized Matter: When will their suffocation End?
In Minneapolis, US an African American, George Floyd lost his life as the white policeman, Derek Chauvin, caught hold of him and put his knee on his neck. This is…
George Floyd is strangled in India too
“I can’t breathe…”. These were the last words of forty-six-year-old black African American George Floyd. He uttered them when he was being strangled to death by the white American police.…
From word to commonplace: The trajectory of mob lynching
Palghar incident again reminds me of my first encounter with the word mob lynching. How far we have come but the mob still looks and sound the same in its…
Another Youth Lynched In West Bengal
Days after the brutal lynching of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand, a 24-year-old youth was lynched to death in West Bengal. The victim identified as Sanaul Sheikh was accused of bike…
Lynching To Power
Mashal Khan, a 23 year old journalism student was seized from his dorm room by a mob that stripped and beat him, then shot him dead on 13 April 2017…
CPI(ML) Activist Zafar Lynched To Death In Rajasthan For Resisting Photography And Videography Of Women Defecating In Open
Early in the morning on 16 June 2017, Comrade Zafar Hussein, an activist of CPI(ML) in Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, was kicked, punched and beaten to death by karamcharis of the nagarpalika…
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