In the final part of the special series on the second wave of Covid-19, Harsh Mander imagines what a place of kindness would look like. Reuters If we are indeed able to join hands to beat a new pathway for our collective futures, built with the elements of our grief, our rage and our hope,…
Even as government abandoned its people during the country’s gravest humanitarian crisis ever, citizens went above and beyond to help each other. An elderly woman walks with a volunteer to board a taxi to a vaccination centre in Mumbai in June 2021. | Reuters An October 2021 serosurvey revealed that 97% of the residents of…
The government instead went into a publicity overdrive later, bragging about its vaccinations while brushing under the carpet the bodies of the second wave. A woman walks past a painting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before the inauguration of the Covid-19 vaccination drive on a street in Mumbai on January 15, 2021. |…
Why did the country have to go through the Covid-19 horrors of the summer of 2021?
Reconstructing the murder in Ahmedabad of the politician-poet during the Gujarat riots.
Amid the pandemic, the country experienced cruel extortion from corporate leaders to the smallest providers of medical and funeral essentials.
How did the country slip deep into the coronavirus hell of the summer of 2021?
‘Its troubling reminders continue to haunt my memory and my conscience,’ writes the social activist.
Excerpts from Harsh Mander’s JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture to mark the birth centenary of the former civil servant.
The pandemic has starkly revealed that India has failed to provide even basic health-care to the majority of its citizens.