Mainstream Weekly

For US, Trade, QUAD matters more than human rights in India | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2026-06-12T13:52:49Z

June 1, 2026
Christians in India, some of who were expecting that visiting United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio will carry their appeal for revocation of FCRA cancellations to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government are really disappointed that he only murmured worshipful platitudes at the Grave of Mother Teresa in Kolkata, and said even less at his meetings in Delhi during the day.
We do not know what he told Mr Modi in private at the PMO, but it is unlikely the matter of (…)

- 2026

Lathis and Lies in NOIDA as State turns on NCR factory workers | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2026-05-01T03:25:17Z

April 27, 2026
A labour protest for a living wage has led to a major police crackdown in Uttar Pradesh

- 2026

Manipur Year 4: Guns Without Justice | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2026-05-01T03:16:13Z

April 26, 2026
Three years into the worst episode of ethnic violence, marked by grave allegations of state failure and complicity, in post-independence India, the Central government is preparing to deploy around 100 battalions of paramilitary forces to the north-east, principally into Nagaland and ravaged Manipur.
Declaring on 31 March 2026 that the Maoist insurgency in central India had been defeated after six decades, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the redeployment of (…)

- 2026

The spectral presence of Christians in Indian politics | john Dayal

John Dayal — 2025-11-29T10:50:25Z

by John Dayal
There are hardly any Christian MPs and MLAs in India other than those elected on a political party ticket from Kerala, Andhra, Telangana, West Bengal, Karnataka, Goa, Orissa and the tiny-population north east states of Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal and Manipur.
There are almost none in the Hindi states of the Central and northern parts of India. The exception are a very few Adivasis of the Chhotanagpur contiguous belt. The total number of ministers in the Union (…)

- 2025

Revisiting Manipur 27 months later | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2025-08-30T01:15:01Z

There are many victims in the 27-month ethnic conflict in Manipur; and most government institutions must own responsibility.
The devastating conflagration engulfed the north-eastern state on May 3, 2023, triggered by a Manipur High Court directive recommending Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the Meitei community, escalating ethnic tensions into widespread violence.
With over 200 deaths, thousands displaced, and societal divides deepened, it is a national crisis testing India

- 2025

Anti-conversion laws heighten Christian persecution in India, says European Centre for Law and Justice's report | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2025-08-17T00:42:05Z

The European Centre for Law and Justice in its 2025 report on Anti Conversion laws and the Persecution of Christians in India said, inter alia, that the dark underbelly of India's democracy was the perpetuation of Christian through the anti-conversion laws enforced in 12 major states, many of them ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party which also runs the country

- 2025

Lessons from the recent arrest of two Indian nuns | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2025-08-09T12:08:34Z

Outside southern Kerala state, no buyers for the ruling BJP

- 2025

Chhattisgarh: No grave to lay my head | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2025-01-18T20:37:00Z

January 21, 2025 Indian citizens, regardless of their religion, have freedom of dignity in life, and in death, assurances that are seldom kept
In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, villagers, local authorities and even the state's High Court have denied a Christian man the right to bury his father's body in the village graveyard.
There is no peace of the graveyard yet for Subhash Bhaghel who died on Jan. 7 in Chindhwara district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
In a (…)

- 2025

Arunachal Christians gird up to face a challenge from Sangh and the government | John Dayal

John Dayal — 2025-01-11T23:38:32Z

India

- 2025

Indian women decry

John Dayal — 2024-12-07T22:04:00Z

December 7, 2024
Bhagwat's 3 child norm
Indian women, still deemed politically passive, have taken the lead in shooting down an advisory form the ruling party

- 2024