Harsh Mander
Mander is a human rights worker and writer
Sat, Jan 29, 2022
🔴 Harsh Mander writes: The pandemic exposed the horrors of the existing economic and social arrangements that privilege some but treat others as expendable
Wed, Dec 15, 2021
🔴 Harsh Mander writes: India’s commitment to pluralism, social harmony and the rule of law, lauded at President Biden’s democracy summit, is crumbling.
Sun, Oct 03, 2021
Harsh Mander writes: The violence in Assam, like that inflicted by lynch mobs, shows normalisation of hatred against communities. It cannot be ascribed to social anomalies.
Sun, Aug 22, 2021
Harsh Mander writes: We must remember always what the politics of religious hate does to a people.
Thu, Jun 10, 2021
Harsh Mander writes: It’s been three years since Bhima Koregaon accused were incarcerated by a state that continues to oppose bail for them, despite Covid and other grave threats to their health.
Sat, May 08, 2021
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.
Fri, Oct 23, 2020
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?
Mon, Sep 14, 2020
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?”
Sat, Jun 13, 2020
Harsh Mandar writes: It is apparent the policies of the Union government to battle the pandemic have failed. I believe that the people of India will gravely suffer the consequences of these failures for at least a generation.
Mon, Apr 27, 2020
In these dire circumstances, it is essential for the state to directly provide the basic means of survival to anyone who needs it. This must be in both cash and kind.
Wed, Apr 15, 2020
Harsh Mander writes on COVID-19: Public health experts differ about whether such a harsh and comprehensive a lockdown was advisable in India. But assuming it was, it was designed and implemented entirely bereft of empathy and compassion.
Fri, Mar 27, 2020
Harsh Mander writes: The Indian government found it fit to charter planes with medical staff to fly in migrants from other countries. But it felt no responsibility at all to the millions of migrants stranded without work and food in every corner of the country.
Fri, Feb 28, 2020
The other part of the movement, therefore, must be to deepen our unity and solidarity. It must address not just the state but each of us. In the end, the kind of country we become will be determined not by law or court judgments, but by whether love or hate colonises our hearts.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020
History will long remember this moment for how citizens pulled India back from the edge of fascism, through both, the resolve of collective civil disobedience and the public affirmation of their solidarity.
Wed, Dec 25, 2019
India’s young have picked up mantle of an older battle — for a country that is equal, just and kind
Wed, Dec 11, 2019
The CAB-NRC poses the gravest threat to India’s secular democratic constitution since India became a republic, and must be fought with a nation-wide civil disobedience movement. The contours of this struggle need to be worked out by We the People.
Mon, Nov 25, 2019
Justice Gogoi chose a moment, a few days before he remitted office, in a public function in Delhi, to vigorously defend the NRC in Assam. It is unusual for an incumbent Chief Justice to publicly declare his views on highly politically fraught matters.
Tue, Oct 29, 2019
We need to ask why India lags behind its neighbours in combating hunger, malnutrition
Mon, Oct 28, 2019
Among all the countries included in the report, India has the highest rate of child wasting (which rose from the 2008-2012 level of 16.5 per cent to 20.8 per cent). Its child stunting rate (at 37.9 per cent) also remains shockingly high.
Sun, Oct 06, 2019
Despite some omissions, an eclectic volume of writings by one of India’s longest-serving politicians.
Thu, Oct 03, 2019
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.
Sat, Sep 14, 2019
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.
Tue, Aug 27, 2019
Pehlu Khan verdict underlines subversion of justice by police and bureaucracy.
Tue, Jun 25, 2019
Extending the concept of foreigners tribunals from Assam to rest of India will result in an upheaval that will stir memories of Partition.
Sat, May 04, 2019
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.