Harsh Mander: When our caravan of love defied threats of violence to pay tribute to Pehlu Khan

On September 14, the Karwan-e-Mohabbat was threatened not to visit Behror, where the dairy farmer was killed in April.

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· Sep 16, 2017 · 05:45 pm

Call to conscience: A ‘journey of atonement and love’ seeks to counter communal, caste hatred

Karawan e Mohabbat rolls out next month to reassure the fearful Muslims, Christians, Dalits and Adivasis, and question the majority’s silence over lynchings.

Harsh Mander

· Aug 31, 2017 · 08:00 am

On a perilous path: India is being unmade, a lynching at a time

The core of our secular-pluralist democracy has survived mass communal violence. But it may not survive the ongoing normalisation of hate and bigotry.

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· Aug 22, 2017 · 08:00 am

As India turns 70, a sombre reminder of stolen freedoms

For millions of Indians, freedom still remains just a word.

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· Aug 15, 2017 · 08:00 am

The soldier in his uniform is not India’s only true patriot – there are heroes everywhere

There are women and men in other vocations who also defend India’s freedom, often at great personal cost and sacrifice.

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· Jul 17, 2017 · 07:45 am

Harsh Mander: The taming of Kashmir is seen to be essential for the establishment of a Hindu Rashtra

Who will tell India’s leaders that the truly strong are those who have the courage to be kind and just?

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· Jun 08, 2017 · 08:00 am

Gujarat riots victim Bilkis Bano’s hard-fought victory holds out hope at a time of fear and hate

On Thursday, the Bombay High Court upheld the life terms of 11 men convicted of raping her and killing 14 members of her family.

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· May 07, 2017 · 10:30 am

A country for the cow: The chronicle of a visit to cow vigilante victim Pehlu Khan’s village

The Mewat farmer lynched by cow vigilantes in Alwar has left behind a broken family, and a fearful community questioning its place in the Indian republic.

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· Apr 24, 2017 · 09:00 am

Why the Hashimpura massacre of 42 Muslim men in 1987 is relevant in the polarised UP of today

Vibhuti Narain Rai’s account of India's deadliest extrajudicial killings is a reminder that minorities face the same hatred they did then.

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· Apr 16, 2017 · 08:00 am

What a tribunal that blamed a man sleeping on the road for his death should know about homelessness

The motor accident claims tribunal recently ruled that a man run over by a dumper truck was equally to blame for the accident.

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· Apr 10, 2017 · 10:30 am

Yogi Adityanath is as much a creation of the so-called secular parties as of the Sangh

The parties in the Opposition have long abandoned any real commitment to secular values, or even the defence of the country’s minorities.

Harsh Mander

· Mar 21, 2017 · 06:30 am

What growth? The GDP numbers don't account for the first-hand accounts of pain and suffering

At worst, the numbers are fudged. At best, it is a very flawed method of calculation.

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· Mar 09, 2017 · 07:30 am