Who lit the fires in Nuh?

The Meo Muslims of Nuh shared tight bonds and socio-cultural life with Hindus for centuries. But lynchings and hate killings since 2017 have torn them apart.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 17, 2023 · 07:30 am

Harsh Mander: How ‘shramik’ trains added to the misery of the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown

An excerpt from ‘Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy’.

Harsh Mander

· Jul 21, 2023 · 08:30 am

Harsh Mander: Why a special court judge had jailed BJP MLA Maya Kodnani for 26 years

Looking back at the Gujarat violence of 2002.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 22, 2023 · 09:00 am

Harsh Mander: How Hindutva has weaponised Hinduism

The ‘Routes of Wrath’ report shows a recurring pattern by Hindutva organisations aimed at provoking and terrorising Muslims to create a communal chasm.

Harsh Mander

· Apr 08, 2023 · 06:30 am

Opinion: Nandita Das’s ‘Zwigato’ is luminous in its humanism

The director speaks to us of the lives and struggles of ordinary people from who has been stolen cruelly all hopes of a decent future.

Harsh Mander

· Mar 27, 2023 · 06:30 pm

Amid pandemic, economic woes and stark inequality, the Union Budget sends a troubling message

How long will working people live with a policy regime that concentrates wealth in a few hands and leaves millions struggling for basics?

Harsh Mander

· Feb 27, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘When all this is over’: What would a better, post-pandemic future look like?

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.

Harsh Mander

· Dec 23, 2022 · 09:00 am

Memories of Covid-19 may fade, but the compassion of Indians who rose to the occasion inspires hope

Even as government abandoned its people during the country’s gravest humanitarian crisis ever, citizens went above and beyond to help each other.

Harsh Mander

· Oct 26, 2022 · 09:00 am

How the Centre’s disastrous decisions on vaccines cost the lives of lakhs of Indians

The government instead went into a publicity overdrive later, bragging about its vaccinations while brushing under the carpet the bodies of the second wave.

Harsh Mander

· Sep 16, 2022 · 11:30 am

Harsh Mander: As India gasped for oxygen in the second wave, those in power looked the other way

Why did the country have to go through the Covid-19 horrors of the summer of 2021?

Harsh Mander

· Jul 27, 2022 · 09:00 am

Harsh Mander: Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002?

Reconstructing the murder in Ahmedabad of the politician-poet during the Gujarat riots.

Harsh Mander

· Jul 20, 2022 · 08:30 am

Harsh Mander: How some exploited India’s Covid-19 crisis to make money

Amid the pandemic, the country experienced cruel extortion from corporate leaders to the smallest providers of medical and funeral essentials.

Harsh Mander

· Jun 02, 2022 · 09:00 am