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

The frequent deaths of India’s sewer workers isn’t a governance failure – they are rooted in caste

The philosophy of caste validates the casual subjection of sanitation workers to the hazardous, humiliating task of cleaning sewers and septic tanks.

Harsh Mander

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Sonal Sharma

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Vidit Verma

· Nov 17, 2019 · 06:30 am

One morning, returning from visiting his sister, an 80-year-old Muslim man was lynched in Sitamarhi

Rumours had swirled about a Durga idol being damaged by a stone hurled from a mosque. Zainul Ansari paid the price.

Harsh Mander

· Nov 05, 2019 · 06:30 am

A Dalit man agreed to clean a sewer hoping for a permanent job – and was killed by toxic fumes

The authorities in Mathura have failed to keep their promise to give Rakesh Valmiki’s family a pension, a home and free education for the children.

Harsh Mander

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Vidit Verma

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Sonal Sharma

· Oct 27, 2019 · 06:30 am

Why a woman in Udaipur refused to strike a compromise after her husband died cleaning a septic tank

The man who had hired Sukhlal didn’t even visit the dead man’s home to inquire about his family. But he wanted them to withdraw their police complaint.

Harsh Mander

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Vidit Verma

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Sonal Sharma

· Oct 11, 2019 · 06:30 am

Gandhi’s talisman and a migrant worker’s lynching in Bihar

‘I could not forget the faces of Rudhi Devi and her children, the faces which Gandhiji had advised us to recall in times of uncertainty and confusion.’

Harsh Mander

· Oct 07, 2019 · 06:30 am

As three Dalits lay dying from toxic fumes in an Agra sewer, no one would even give them water

Baby Valmiki recounts the death of her husband Raju and his two companions in 2012.

Harsh Mander

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Sonal Sharma

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Vidit Verma

· Sep 27, 2019 · 06:30 am

How the dreams of a family man from Muzaffarnagar were lynched 2,500 km away in Tripura

Zahid Khan worked in the North Eastern state for 20 years, hoping to give his children a better life. A mob claiming he was a kidnapper changed it all abruptly.

Harsh Mander

· Sep 21, 2019 · 06:30 am

A woman in MP recounts the trauma of watching her husband die in a tank full of faeces

Chinta Bai lost her son to a snakebite and her husband to the inexorable practice of manual scavenging.

Harsh Mander

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Sonal Sharma

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Vidit Verma

· Sep 13, 2019 · 06:30 am