投稿者: Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan
Indians were shocked when social media exposed a mob abusing minority Kuki women. But similar incidents have been happening with impunity for monthsAs footage emerged last week of two women in the state of Manipur being forcibly stripped, paraded naked…
Chance encounter on Facebook led Reena Varma, 90, to visit family home she was forced to abandon in 1947For decades, Reena Varma would return to her home in Rawalpindi in her dreams. She would wander down the narrow lane to the three-storey house and w…
Social media is helping long-lost relatives discover each other after a lifetime separated by the India-Pakistan borderIt was an embrace that held 74 years of pain and longing. As Sikka Khan, 75, fell into the arms of his older brother Sadiq Khan, now …
‘Authoritarian’ rules upset sleepy Lakshadweep’s Muslim majority while Covid cases soar from zero to 10% of populationAccording to local people, the problems for Lakshadweep, an archipelago of paradise islands in southern India, began the day the new g…
Mass detentions in Jammu ‘in violation’ of UN status and are part of wider crackdownAbout 170 Rohingya refugees living in India have been rounded up into detention centres and told they will be forcibly deported back to Myanmar where they had previousl…
Both sides prepare for winter with little hope of diplomatic outcome to border disputeAt an altitude of almost 15,000ft, the residents of Chushul village make their way across the bleak and unforgiving territory of the Indian state of Ladakh.With unwie…