https://www.scmp.com/rss/326053/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A young suicide bomber carrying 350kg of explosives rammed his car into an armed convoy on February 14 in Kashmir, killing 44 Indian paramilitary soldiers. The attack spurred a surge of collective grief in India, as people across the political and social spectrum came together to mourn the loss of the soldiers killed in the line of duty – mostly sons of farmers and workers in their twenties. But the grief lasted only too briefly, with the sorrow quickly transmuting into a menacing frenzy of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2189251/how-rage-and-love-gripped-india-after-kashmir-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2189251/how-rage-and-love-gripped-india-after-kashmir-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Mar 2019 11:07:06 +0000 India’s democracy suffered a body blow this week when police raids across six cities resulted in five prominent left-wing human rights defenders being arrested, the homes and offices of many more searched, and their documents, books, mobile phones and laptops seized. These included lawyers, a poet, an 81-year-old Jesuit priest and a management teacher. They were all charged under an extraordinary anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, which allows investigating agencies to... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2162232/urban-maoists-modis-india-if-you-are-right-you-must-be-left?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2162232/urban-maoists-modis-india-if-you-are-right-you-must-be-left?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:15:30 +0000 The fate of four million Bengali speaking people in India’s large north-eastern state of Assam today hangs in perilous balance. Their names have been left out of the penultimate draft of the National Citizens Register. This means that if they are unable to prove their Indian citizenship in the last chance they will get for this – with only one month to file their claims – they will be judged to be excluded from India’s register of citizens. During the first half of the 1980s, Assam had become... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2158208/bengali-muslim-what-next-assams-forever-foreigners-modis-india?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2158208/bengali-muslim-what-next-assams-forever-foreigners-modis-india?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Aug 2018 03:30:00 +0000 A rising tide of hate is surging through India, of toxic speech and attacks on religious minorities, mostly Muslims. A permissive environment that tacitly or openly encourages hate speech and assaults is actively, even aggressively, fostered by the majoritarian anti-minority ideology of the country’s political leadership. Muslims are systematically demonised as sexual predators, as being sympathetic to terrorism and as people who slaughter and eat cow, which is held sacred by many Hindus. Most... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2124474/india-no-country-muslims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2124474/india-no-country-muslims?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:02:04 +0000