Harsh Mander: Shaheen Bagh and the politics of love

The Delhi protest site became a model for democratic struggle, developing a vocabulary of love as resistance, and confident, equal citizenship.

Harsh Mander

· Sep 29, 2020 · 06:30 am

We will not be silenced: Harsh Mander on the Delhi violence case

The truth is being ripped into shreds and reimagined to create the mythology of a conspiracy of hate, violence and insurrection.

Harsh Mander

· Sep 09, 2020 · 07:30 am

The smoke of conspiracies: The targeting of Professor Apoorvanand

The Delhi University Hindi professor has faced a barrage of media attacks claiming he is a key figure in a conspiracy to spark riots in the city in February.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 16, 2020 · 06:30 am

Delhi riots: For survivors of the violence, a return to normalcy is only a pipe dream

How a group of volunteers tried to help victims access relief and justice.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 14, 2020 · 09:00 am

Delhi riots: A group of volunteers chronicles stories of despair – and courage

Notes from a makeshift relief control room.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 13, 2020 · 06:30 am

Delhi riots: Young residents share the trauma of profound loss, betrayal and injustice

A five-part series on the February violence in the capital based on a report titled ‘Chronicling Truth, Countering Hate’.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 12, 2020 · 09:00 am

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