Opinion: Nandita Das’s ‘Zwigato’ is luminous in its humanism
The director speaks to us of the lives and struggles of ordinary people from who has been stolen cruelly all hopes of a decent future.
Harsh Mander writes: Demolitions of homeless shelters in Delhi show a lack of compassion, and a disrespect for the Court
Twelve years ago, the Supreme Court had ordered the establishment of these shelters for the destitute
Amid pandemic, economic woes and stark inequality, the Union Budget sends a troubling message
How long will working people live with a policy regime that concentrates wealth in a few hands and leaves millions struggling for basics?
Rights activist Harsh Mander writes: The line between the vigilantes and the state seems to be blurring in Haryana
The death of Junaid and Nasir are evidence of the dangerous consequences of state authorities joining hands with vigilantes
A New Dawn? Can India Reverse Its Staggering Inequality?
How long will India’s working people live with a policy regime that concentrates unimaginable levels of wealth in a few hands and leaves millions of people struggling for food, healthcare, decent schooling, work, and pensions when they age?
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.