Harsh Mander: With the Ayodhya ceremony, has the inclusive India of my dreams been lost forever?

The idea of a humane country of equal citizenship has taken a bad knock.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 05, 2020 · 06:30 am

On Yamuna’s dirty banks, brotherhood of the dispossessed gathers in the only place they know as home

They prefer the unsanitary, inhospitable stretch along the river to the hot, crowded shelters to which they were taken.

Harsh Mander

· May 24, 2020 · 06:30 am

Following authoritarian regimes around the world, India is using Covid-19 pandemic to crush dissent

In Delhi, large numbers of people – many of them Muslim – have been arrested in cases related to the CAA-NRC protests and recent communal riots.

Harsh Mander

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Amitanshu Verma

· May 15, 2020 · 06:30 am

Harsh Mander: For India’s migrant workers, the prospect of life with dignity has become more remote

The Supreme Court said it could not rely on studies about the condition of migrant workers by private bodies when the government portrayed a different picture.

Harsh Mander

· May 05, 2020 · 06:30 am

In Western Assam, a single mother struggles to put food on her family’s plate amid lockdown

On most days, Marjina and her family eat just boiled rice with salt and water.

Abdul Kalam Azad

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Harsh Mander

· Apr 26, 2020 · 07:30 am

Covid-19 lockdown: A cloth trader recounts his grueling walk from Gujarat to Uttar Pradesh

Shamim went days without food, water or sleep. Daily phone calls to his family is what kept him going.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 24, 2020 · 12:30 pm

In Haryana’s Nuh district, locked-down and hungry residents are living off sporadic acts of charity

Shahnaz, a domestic helper, and her family do not know where their meals are coming from.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 19, 2020 · 06:30 am

‘I cannot eat or sleep’: In Assam, farmers grown anxious as vegetables go unsold amid lockdown

150 small farmers who were interviewed said they would each lose Rs 20,000 on average.

Harsh Mander

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Abdul Kalam Azad

· Apr 13, 2020 · 06:30 am

In Karnataka teen’s cry of ‘Pakistan zindabad’, an echo of Tagore’s thoughts about patriotism

If we had paid heed to what Amulya Noronha was saying, perhaps it was the rejection of the idea that love for one’s country requires hate of specified enemies.

Harsh Mander

· Feb 27, 2020 · 09:00 am

On the streets, India’s youth are completing the unfinished business of the freedom struggle

They have demonstrated conclusively that there is no hegemonic consensus in support of the idea of a Hindu Rashtra.

Harsh Mander

· Jan 30, 2020 · 06:30 am

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.

Harsh Mander

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Mohsin Alam Bhat

· Jan 12, 2020 · 06:30 am

In Aligarh, police used stun grenades against students – and university officials justified this

Stun grenades are used only in war situations and for militarised policing, never to quell student protests.

Harsh Mander

· Dec 20, 2019 · 07:30 am