A Manipur Muslim family struggles to understand why a lynch mob thought their MBA-son was a thief

Mohamed Farooq Khan ran a small food processing unit. Why would the mob that murdered him in September 2018 believe that he would want to steal a scooter?

Harsh Mander

· 18 hours ago

Govind decided to clean a septic tank to earn extra money for Holi. He drowned in shit

Though manual scavenging is banned, it hasn’t disappeared. As flush toilets become more popular, the practice has simply taken on a new form.

Harsh Mander

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Sonal Sharma

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Vidit Verma

· Jul 19, 2019 · 12:30 pm

In Old Delhi, after a temple is vandalised, a fragile, unequal peace prevails

What kind of peace is this? How deep does it go? Will it endure?

Harsh Mander

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Navsharan Singh

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Aritra Mukherjee

· Jul 15, 2019 · 07:00 am

The tragic death of Mohammed Shaikh, the rickshaw puller who shared his life in a poignant video

Months before he was hit by a tempo as he slept on the pavement by a busy highway in Delhi, he had told his story to a Karwan-e-Mohabbat team.

Harsh Mander

· Jun 14, 2019 · 06:30 am

Harsh Mander’s open letter on 2019 results: A savage summer, a merciless drought

I looked to these elections as a bellwether of the soul of India’s majority Hindu people. I am anguished by the results.

Harsh Mander

· May 27, 2019 · 06:30 am

As Haryana votes on May 12, a reminder of a troubling death in a police encounter in Mewat

Several eyewitnesses say Arshad Khan was shot dead at point-blank range in February. This brazen act indicates police are assured of their impunity.

Harsh Mander

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John Dayal

· May 11, 2019 · 06:30 am

2002 Gujarat riots: Why the ‘clean chit’ given to Narendra Modi does not absolve him

An excerpt from Harsh Mander’s book, ‘Between Memory and Forgetting’ that revisits the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 23, 2019 · 08:30 am

By denying Hindutva terror exists despite Karkare’s work, Modi betrays constitutional principles

While some Hindutva terror accused have been acquitted in connection with blasts in 2006, 2007 and 2008, others have been convicted.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 21, 2019 · 03:30 pm

‘Hindutva terror’ acquittals expose India’s deeply compromised criminal justice system

One by one, persons credibly charged with Hindutva terror attacks since 2006 have been discharged by courts, always on grounds of shoddy police investigation.

Mohsin Alam Bhat

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Harsh Mander

· Apr 19, 2019 · 08:00 am

Githa Hariharan’s new novel is a sensitive, discomfiting meditation on caste and resistance

‘I Have Become The Tide’ asks if equality is something that oppressed people will have to continue fighting for.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 13, 2019 · 08:30 am

Reclaiming the Republic: With its manifesto, Congress has put concerns of ordinary Indians in focus

The BJP, on the other hand, has made it clear that it will fight the 2019 general elections on a divisive, communal agenda.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 06, 2019 · 12:30 pm

New justice of New India: The mob attack on Gurugram Muslim family follows a sickening pattern

As in almost every case of hate crime, the police filed a criminal complaint against the victims. They are now utterly broken.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 01, 2019 · 07:00 am