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?
Why did the country have to go through the Covid-19 horrors of the summer of 2021?
Reconstructing the murder in Ahmedabad of the politician-poet during the Gujarat riots.
Amid the pandemic, the country experienced cruel extortion from corporate leaders to the smallest providers of medical and funeral essentials.
How did the country slip deep into the coronavirus hell of the summer of 2021?
‘Its troubling reminders continue to haunt my memory and my conscience,’ writes the social activist.
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.
We must remember always what the politics of religious hate does to a people.
Excerpts from Harsh Mander’s JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture to mark the birth centenary of the former civil servant.
The pandemic has starkly revealed that India has failed to provide even basic health-care to the majority of its citizens.
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.