Harsh Mander
Mander is a human rights worker and writer
Articles By Harsh Mander
The middle ground
Despite some omissions, an eclectic volume of writings by one of India’s longest-serving politicians.
Citizenship Amendment Bill will result in untold fear and dislocation of Muslim citizens
This is the fearful tempest that threatens to engulf India in the coming months, one which will destroy in its wake this country as it was imagined and promised.
Tabrez Ansari lynching case: Why the outcome must concern us all
India’s criminal justice system has always been biased against disadvantaged castes, women and Muslims. Few people who organised and participated in caste and communal massacres and rapes have ever been punished.
Chronicle of an acquittal foretold
Pehlu Khan verdict underlines subversion of justice by police and bureaucracy.
The spectre of foreignness
Extending the concept of foreigners tribunals from Assam to rest of India will result in an upheaval that will stir memories of Partition.
Over five years, BJP has consistently sought to marginalise Muslims
The 2014 general elections were crafted by the BJP to render India’s Muslims politically irrelevant by welding disadvantaged Hindu castes with privileged castes— and in India’s Northeast even with Christians — against the constructed common enemy, India’s Muslims.
Why income transfers are not enough
An urban employment guarantee programme is an idea whose time has come.
No shortcuts to income guarantee
Rahul Gandhi’s proposed scheme will do more harm than good if it comes at the cost of existing subsidies for the poor.
People no country wants
Assam is sitting on a volcano of suffering and conflict. On test is the mettle of India’s democracy.
Speak up, act
Strategic silences won’t help Congress lead the idea of India towards safer shores.
The uncaring state
In Jharkhand, over the past year, the police rarely reached out to protect or support victims of the lynch mobs.
The mob that hates
A law for lynching isn’t enough. It recurs due to climate of impunity, political encouragement.
Returning to Hapur
Hatred against minorities is rising across the world. But India offers an exceptional impunity for bigotry.
Terms of forgiveness
Individuals like Mariam Khatoon, Yashpal Saxena and Imam Rashidi show the way to a more humane society
Pehlu Khan, one year later
His family has found no justice, his community is still under siege
Our threatened humanity
Harsh Mander: India has never been as divided since Partition, and new partitions are being constructed each day in our hearts.
Sonia, sadly
Sonia Gandhi's fear that the Congress is being perceived as a Muslim party completes the community’s abandonment
A crime of hate, a journey of love
In the wake of Afrazul’s murder, revisiting the fear that lingers for those who, like him, travelled far away from their homes to provide for loved ones.
It’s not about one Ram temple
The campaign to demolish the Babri Masjid had a sub-text: Muslims should know their place, that of second-class citizens.
Through a caravan, darkly
In its journey to the sites of lynchings across states, the Karwan-e-Mohabbat found a stark waning of compassion and solidarity