Fugana

Gulshana clutched her baby with one hand and her voter ID card with the other, as she sat crushed among about 50 people on a tractor trolley to travel five km and vote today.

The village of Fugana, like so many in the sugarcane belt of Western Uttar Pradesh, has been prosperous, but for the most part, it was a quiet one, with few flashpoints between the Hindu Jats who form the majority and a few hundred Muslim families, who work their fields. The white-hot signs of how that changed this weekend are everywhere today - in...

Mohammad Altaf's five-year-old daughter and two-year-old niece have been missing since communal clashes ripped through Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 40 people since Saturday.

Gulshana clutched her baby with one hand and her voter ID card with the other, as she sat crushed among about 50 people on a tractor trolley to travel five km and vote today.

The village of Fugana, like so many in the sugarcane belt of Western Uttar Pradesh, has been prosperous, but for the most part, it was a quiet one, with few flashpoints between the Hindu Jats who form the majority and a few hundred Muslim families, who work their fields. The white-hot signs of how that changed this weekend are everywhere today - in...

Mohammad Altaf's five-year-old daughter and two-year-old niece have been missing since communal clashes ripped through Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 40 people since Saturday.