It is no coincidence that Bilkis Bano’s rapists were released on India’s Independence Day.

Apoorvanand teaches Hindi at the University of Delhi. He writes literary and cultural criticism.
It is no coincidence that Bilkis Bano’s rapists were released on India’s Independence Day.
The anti-Islam insults by high-ranking BJP staffers, which caused a diplomatic storm, are hardly anomalies.
But resistance to the violent and divisive politics of Hindu nationalists is also growing.
The ruling party is trying to demonise the farmers’ protests by portraying them as a Sikh conspiracy.
The new ‘anti-conversion’ laws remove agency from women and put a target on the backs of innocent Muslim men and boys.
I documented and wrote about the Delhi communal riots. Now I am being portrayed as conspiring to incite violence.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been turned into yet another Islamophobic conspiracy theory.
The BJP’s setback in Delhi’s local legislative elections is not a defeat of its Hindu nationalist agenda.
The Indian government and judiciary have shown little willingness to deliver justice in ‘saffron terror’ cases.
A new bill which seeks to grant citizenship only to non-Muslim immigrants is an attack on India’s secular character.