Anguri begum

Welcome to the vigilante nation

The meek acquiescence by citizens to the growing intrusion of state and other actors is alarming. Don’t eat beef. Don’t transport cows. Don’t buy cows. Don’t drink alcohol if in Gujarat and Bihar or within 500 metres of state and national highways. Don’t play cricket with Pakistan and don’t hire Pakistani actors in films. Stand […]

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Fear and loathing in new India: Dadri, Alwar lynchings leave us unmoved

Nothing exemplifies the moral slide from Dadri to Alwar as much as the indifference on display. A family counts itself blessed that the 85-year-old mother is blind and is ,therefore, spared from having to watch the video of her son being told to escape – then chased and lynched. We shrug at a bride’s disappointment

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