Manipur is not the first horror. There is a stark resemblance to gory episodes before, but we must plough ahead, guided by memories of sunshine too, of better times made possible when we did not want to draw lines of hate and division. 

Egypt's president conferred on PM Modi the Order of the Nile. The Grand Mufti of Egypt discussed communal harmony with him. And yet, memories of the Gujarat carnage and daily news of lynchings make such updates sound hollow.

Thousands of Dalit people funded a symbolic gesture of gifting the Indian parliament a 10-tonne coin calling for the realisation of Ambedkar's dream of untouchability-free India. They were stopped at Haryana's borders.

The court’s concern that individuals at the highest level have to face questions of serious human rights abuses translates into a warning to those who raise human rights issues, while opening the window for them to be criminally prosecuted.

To decry Maulana Azad for 'sidelining pro Hindu nationalist scholars' is to overlook his contributions to the finest educational institutions in the country.

The story of North America in the 1970s is not very different from what it is today.

Even in her last days, she was doing whatever she could to help migrant workers on the road.

Neither the cold, nor attempts at communalising the protests can take away the fact that Shaheen Bagh is testament to the Muslim woman's arrival in Indian politics.

Kashmir's mothers are suspended in a state of longing for their children, the Yawars of the Valley, who are in fear, in danger or without trace.

Lies have been spoken unabashedly, so what indeed is 'normal' in this land?

Aslam Khwaja's People’s Movements in Pakistan covers instances that rarely find mention in news in India, leading us to see common threads between resistance movements on both sides of the divide.