Anant Gupta

1 week ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta

“Mujhe help chahiye, mere ghar walon ne mujhe bandi bana rakha hai.”Help me, my family has been keeping me captive, 25-year-old Sonika Chauhan had pleaded in a surreptitious message to Scroll on June 12. Until a few weeks ago, Chauhan was running a beauty parlour in the National Capital Region’s Ghaziabad city. Next door, Akbar Khan, her 29-year-old husband, operated a centre to help people fill out government forms. The two had got married privately in August 2022 but did not move in together.

2 weeks ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta

Nearly three weeks after a 29-year-old Muslim man was arrested by the police in Ghaziabad’s Indirapuram for allegedly kidnapping her and pressuring her into marrying him, Sonika Chauhan told Scroll that the accused man is her husband and did not do anything of this sort. Their marriage, she said, was registered under the Special Marriage Act on August 29, 2022. Scroll has seen a copy of the marriage certificate and verified its authenticity by speaking to one of the witnesses listed in it.

4 weeks ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta

Seven delegations comprising retired Indian diplomats and MPs from all major political parties are travelling around the world to deliver India’s message of zero tolerance for cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan. According to the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, the reason for picking members from parties across the political spectrum was to “project India’s national consensus and resolute approach to combating terrorism” on the world stage.

1 month ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta

In the wake of the four-day India-Pakistan conflict, New Delhi has launched a public relations-offensive to inform the world about the dangers of Pakistan-backed terror in Kashmir. Seven delegations comprising MPs from both the ruling party and the Opposition as well as retired diplomats are currently travelling around the globe to present India’s point of view. They have met journalists, civil society members and policy makers in cities such as New York, Moscow, Doha and Seoul.

1 month ago | scroll.in | Anant Gupta

For nearly three weeks after terrorists killed 26 people in Pahalgam, India’s Opposition extended its unequivocal support to the Modi government. But the May 10 ceasefire between India and Pakistan, which the United States of America claimed to have brokered, upended this arrangement. Soon after the ceasefire was announced, opposition leaders began questioning the timing of the decision and the apparent role of the US in facilitating it.