Interview with Harsh Mander: ‘We Must Reclaim the Idea of Fraternity.’
India – one of the cradles of human civilization, an economic powerhouse with the fifth-biggest GDP among all countries, the largest and most diverse democracy in the world. Yet recently, the COVID-centred coverage of international media has reduced this enormously complex nation into an endless series of calamitous scenes of death and suffering wrought by the pandemic. Harsh Mander is a renowned Indian writer and human rights activist who works with the most marginalised and vulnerable populations in that country, including survivors of mass violence, religious minorities, and homeless children. His organization, Karwan e Mohabbat (Caravan of Love), has been providing humanitarian relief to these groups under the current crisis.