Category: Human Rights and Legal Issues

Dividing India: one bit at a time

Last week, while catching up on news-reports re. the Ranganath Misra Commission, I was struck by how slowly but steadily we keep chipping away at an already fragile sense of national identity…by pitting one...

Can a minor be converted to another religion?

Some of you may have already read the story of a recent, extraordinary judgement by the Kolkata High Court that involved the religious conversion of a minor: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (16th Dec)...

Who are these “Christian Converts”?

Thanks to Sh KSV Subramanian for alerting me to this. In a comment yesterday, he asked: Kerala government has announced writing off loans upto Rs.25,000 to converted Christians. Is this not discrimination on the...