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Multi-award winning, independent journalist based in New Delhi. Editor. Former correspondent at TIME Magazine. Columnist with the Washington Post, the New Internationalist. Credits include BBC, VOA, Radio Lab, Reuters, Al Jazeera, South China Morning Post, the Guardian, El Mundo. Skills: Print, Radio, Multimedia.
Indians are angry. On Sunday, five agricultural laborers were lynched by a mob of nearly 3,000 people in the Dhule district in Maharashtra. The local people were alerted by a fake WhatsApp message about child kidnappers and accused the laborers of being “child-lifters.”
Violence against women is being used as a weapon of communal hatred, suggesting India should enact the Communal Violence bill, Nilanjana Bhowmick argues.
Romanticising the rape and murder of Nirbhaya, the eight-year-old in Kathua, and countless others, and making martyrs of them, is no better than victim-blaming or shaming. They were raped and killed. No halo is bright enough to hide that.
Nilanjana Bhowmick takes apart the latest viral hashtag campaign for the religious takeover of secular India
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