Harsh Mander: Six months on, India’s protesting farmers are creating history
As important as what they are fighting for is how they have chosen to fight.
Assam’s youngest legislator shows how elections can be won even with truth, love and poetry
Ashraful Hussain’s story demonstrates that even with flaws in Indian democracy, it is still possible for youth from marginalised groups to get elected.
Harsh Mander: A lesson in how to end the mass suffering unleashed by India’s first lockdown
A report by the collective Hunger Watch reveals the extent of continuing hunger caused by state policy, and recommends ways to end the distress.
Our silence against forces of hate has enabled this Covid crisis
Harsh Mander writes: Current moment in pandemic points to systematic undermining of countervailing institutions, and to people’s complicity in cheering an uncaring and incompetent state.
Why the National Population Register is more dangerous than the Assam NRC
The Assam NRC was not an anti-Muslim project. But an all-India NRC based on the NPR will allow the executive to pick whose citizenship it wishes to question.
Stan Swamy has stood with the oppressed. The state considers him an enemy
It is adversaries as powerful as these that Swamy and the young Adivasis, who he stands in unflinching solidarity with, are fighting. Is it a surprise then that he is seen as a dangerous enemy of this government?
Nearly seven months after Delhi violence, a continuing attempt to target dissenting voices
As threats of arrest and incarceration on charges of secession and armed rebellion shroud young dissenting voices, who will ask: “Who lit these embers? Who stoked the wind?”
We will not be silenced: Harsh Mander on the Delhi violence case
The truth is being ripped into shreds and reimagined to create the mythology of a conspiracy of hate, violence and insurrection.
The smoke of conspiracies: The targeting of Professor Apoorvanand
The Delhi University Hindi professor has faced a barrage of media attacks claiming he is a key figure in a conspiracy to spark riots in the city in February.
Delhi riots: For survivors of the violence, a return to normalcy is only a pipe dream
How a group of volunteers tried to help victims access relief and justice.