Police stop migrants from moving in Mumbai during the COVID-19 lockdown on April 28, 2020.
(AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s Narendra Modi government has been successful in scapegoating, discriminating against and marginalizing minorities, putting lives at greater risk.
When land central to the identity of locals is reshaped, so is the political landscape.
Nikita Sud
Big development projects can mean the loss of a community’s identity and connection to their past.
Mahatma Gandhi with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, 1947.
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As the British Empire became an unaffordable burden, planning for India’s independence quickly ran into trouble.
A tense start to the year in New Delhi.
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To know India’s future we must first understand Hindu nationalism’s past.