Harsh Mander: As India gasped for oxygen in the second wave, those in power looked the other way
Why did the country have to go through the Covid-19 horrors of the summer of 2021?
Harsh Mander: Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002?
Reconstructing the murder in Ahmedabad of the politician-poet during the Gujarat riots.
Harsh Mander: How some exploited India’s Covid-19 crisis to make money
Amid the pandemic, the country experienced cruel extortion from corporate leaders to the smallest providers of medical and funeral essentials.
Harsh Mander: Despite warnings, Modi government had let India sleepwalk into the second wave
How did the country slip deep into the coronavirus hell of the summer of 2021?
Harsh Mander: How I (barely) survived Covid-19 in a general ward of a public hospital
‘Its troubling reminders continue to haunt my memory and my conscience,’ writes the social activist.
Where does all our hatred come from?
Harsh Mander writes: The violence in Assam, like that inflicted by lynch mobs, shows normalisation of hatred against communities. It cannot be ascribed to social anomalies.
Remember the horrors of Partition, but also draw the right lessons from them
We must remember always what the politics of religious hate does to a people.
Modi government’s partisan misuse of institutions has pushed the Indian republic to the brink
Excerpts from Harsh Mander’s JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture to mark the birth centenary of the former civil servant.
Harsh Mander: Will we learn anything from the mass pyres and floating bodies?
The pandemic has starkly revealed that India has failed to provide even basic health-care to the majority of its citizens.
The UAPA Is One Of Many Modern-Day Avatars Of The Draconian, Colonial Rowlatt Act
The Delhi police accused protesting students of terorrism but refused to treat violence-inciting hate speeches of ruling party leaders as even culpable criminal acts. More than a century after the Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed the British to indefinitely jail Indians it suspected of terrorism without trial, the UAPA & related laws allow free India’s government to do the same.