Author
John Dayal
Faith, Fear and the Long Shadow of a New Law
Legal Context and Passage of the ActPunjab does not have an anti-conversion law of the sort that twelve BJP-governed states - from Uttar Pradesh to Madhya Pradesh, from Gujarat to Uttarakhand - have enacted with varying degrees of severity.But for Christian converts and Hindus, and the occasional Muslim, the AAP government’s recent Jaagat Jot Sri […]
Caste, poverty and the unseen weights crushing young lives
A Tragedy That Sparked a MovementRohith Vemula was a 26-year-old Dalit PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad whose suicide on January 17, 2016, sparked national protests against caste discrimination in Indian academia amidst demands for the resignation of the then Human Resources Minister Smriti Irani. In May 2026, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) […]