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.
Timely and Timeless, Indrajit Roy’s ‘Politics of the Poor’ Tackles a Complex Social Role
India is the world’s largest democracy, but it is also home to the largest numbers of poor people in the world. Roy examines the dichotomy of such an existence. Representative image. An elderly voter shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the third phase of Bihar assembly elections, at a polling station…
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.