South Asia Citizens Web

On June 27, Prime Minister Modi of India will pay his first official visit to the Netherlands. Reasons for this visit are the 70 years diplomatic relations between India and the Netherlands and the fact that the Netherlands is one of the largest investors in India.

This year, the 70th anniversary of India’s independence is also the 70th anniversary of India’s partitioning. The division was not neat. It was a giant, bloody mess. Uprooted from their homes, some 14.5 million human beings, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, left the new Pakistan for India, or India for the new Pakistan.

The article investigates the spatial aspect of Muslim minoritization in the city, namely their ghettoization, resulting from ongoing struggles over Muslim houses. It traces the gradual encroachment on the Muslim-majority neighbourhoods designated ‘Muslim zones’.

Providing more evidence that the sedition law – Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code – is prone to serious misuse, several people across the country have been booked under its tough provisions when all they were doing was celebrating the Pakistani cricket team’s victory over India in the recently concluded Champions Trophy final.

A society made habitual of violence, intimidations, suspicions where killings, torture, sexual abuse and pellet-gun related blindings are the norm is so brutalized that it will try to respond with its own idiom of brutality. Humanity today, sadly so, stands throttled in Kashmir and there is need to reflect and introspect, if this trend is to be reversed or even arrested.