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Chipko movement to water conservation: Anupam Mishra leaves behind a rich legacy of knowledge

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 17, 2016Leave a comment

Gently and with the quiet dignity that characterised the way he lived his entire life, Anupam Mishra left the world on December 19, 2016. He was 68, felled after a long and painful battle against cancer.

Asking the Centre to fulfill its obligations under laws it passed is not judicial overreach

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 16, 2016Leave a comment

On May 11, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched on the floor of Parliament a bitter and frontal attack on India’s judiciary. In words now famous, he claimed: “Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India’s legislature is being destroyed.”

Amnesty case: Yet again Congress shows that it isn’t afraid to use divisive discourse

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 15, 2016Leave a comment

Faced with the unrelenting juggernaut of manufactured hyper-nationalism and majoritarian fundamentalism from the powerful political right, the response of India’s largest national opposition political party, the Indian National Congress, has for long been unsteady, confused and lacking in the courage of its convictions.

Amid the sickness of drugs in an Amritsar colony, children draw up plans to clear the haze

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 14, 2016Leave a comment

Punjab has lost one generation to militancy, and the next generation to drugs. I hear this lament over and over again, whenever I travel into Punjab. The drugs problem is one of many faces of a deeply troubled society.

25 years after liberalisation: India must realise that wealth isn’t development unless it is shared

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 13, 2016Leave a comment

Twenty five years ago, on July 24, 1991, Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh rose in Parliament to present a budget speech that was to alter the destinies of India and its people in fundamental ways.

#SeditionThis: Why I believe Pakistanis are the most gracious people in the world

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 12, 2016Leave a comment

My mother was forced to leave behind the city of her birth, Rawalpindi, when she was just 18 because of the tumultuous ruptures of Partition. She had never returned. When she was to turn 75, I thought the best gift I could give her was to take her, if it was at all possible, to the city and to the home in which she was born.

What the Bhopal jailbreak, killings teach us: Patriotism isn’t blind obedience to the government

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 12, 2016Leave a comment

Menacing clouds have gathered earlier as well over the picturesque lake city of Bhopal. Clouds of dangerous, even criminal, public malfeasance. In the winter of 1984, the people of the city endured the world’s worst industrial disaster in history.

#Modiversary: Harsh Mander on why he worries about the next three years of Modi government

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 11, 2016Leave a comment

This blistering summer of 2016, two years have passed since Prime Minister Narendra Modi triumphantly assumed office, heading the first Bharatiya Janata Party-led national government with a comfortable majority in Parliament.

‘Good for the country, not good for the poor’: Delhi’s marginal folk struggle with demonetisation

Scroll 2016By harsh_userDecember 9, 2016Leave a comment

Early on a winter morning at the Chuna Mandi labour adda near Paharganj in Delhi, the capital’s “dispensables” were gathering to scour for their day’s work, as they do every day. The fog was yet to set in, and the air had a sharp nip. The mood among the casual workers was visibly downbeat.

Preparing for the Trump era: What India’s Modi years can teach the US

Scroll 2016By harsh_userNovember 22, 2016Leave a comment

These are times of global disquiet. Gales of hatred and bigotry are sweeping country after country around the world. After Donald Trump’s emphatic and stunning electoral success to the office of the president of the US, I wrote this mail to many American friends:

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