The hungry nation: the poor need a new and better deal
Like in the jungle, it is the survival of the fittest. Elected Governments are doing everything in their power to exclude people and the poor from getting benefits that are rightfully theirs.
4 years of Modi: Minorities have become second-class citizens
In Modi’s India, minorities are being reduced to second class citizens. A fearsome climate against Dalits, Adivasis, Christians, Muslims has been mounted by hate speech, threats and assaults.
Remembering Neelabh, an activist journalist
Neelabh Mishra, editor-in-chief (far left) with some of his editorial staff at National Herald. Harsh Mander remembers Neelabh as “A man who was utterly generous to his partner, to his family, to his friends, and to everyone in need. A man gentle to the core of his soul.”
Karwan-e-Mohabbat 2018: Lynchings expose the hollowed out promises of India’s republic Dispatches of Harsh Mander who is on a journey across India to raise awareness about lynchings and hate crime.
Our second day of the Karwan-e-Mohabbat 2018 was India’s 67th Republic Day. We spent this day travelling in remote rural Bengal, meeting families of three young men who were lynched, and their bodies mutilated and dismembered.
Karwan-e-Mohabbat 2018: The fear you might be killed because of religion Dispatches of Harsh Mander who is on a journey across India to raise awareness about lynchings and hate crime.
Troubled by the rising tide of hate across India unabated as we entered the New Year, we resolved to continue the Karwan-e-Mohabbat through all of 2018, and if necessary then longer.
Will 2018 be a year of solidarity in dissent?
In an age where “secular” is a contested word, the only way we can better our record of communal harmony is by standing up against hate The 11th day of the Karwan-e-Mohabbat became one of unexpected confrontation and tension.
Usman Ansari, like Mohammad Akhlaq
I took Usman Ansari’s one good hand in mine and said that I had come with the message of sharing his pain. I sought his forgiveness, on behalf of all of us.
Yogi Adityanath is as much a creation of the so-called secular parties as of the Sangh
The masks have been thrown to the winds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his most trusted aide and Bhartiya Janata Party President Amit Shah have audaciously signalled to both national and global public opinion that they feel no need for masks and fig-leafs any longer.
Why the Hashimpura massacre of 42 Muslim men in 1987 is relevant in the polarised UP of today
In India, we have accustomed ourselves to erasing from public memory horrendous injustices and moving on. Moving on without healing, without remorse, without even elementary justice. Moving on as though nothing happened.
Who killed Sohrabuddin? Debate around judge’s death puts focus back on murders by Gujarat police
On November 26, 2005, a man in his thirties named Sohrabuddin Sheikh was gunned down by a team of the Gujarat police. The police claimed that Sheikh was an operative of the Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist organisation and that he was, along with Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency, planning a high-profile assassination of a senior leader in Gujarat