‘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: 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

Harsh Mander: Why did hospital beds fall so disastrously short during India’s second Covid-19 wave?

The World Health Organization recommends at least five beds for a population of 1,000, ten times more than what the country had accomplished since its freedom.

Harsh Mander

· May 07, 2022 · 09:00 am

Harsh Mander: Despite warnings, Modi government had let India sleepwalk into the second wave

How did the country slip deep into the coronavirus hell of the summer of 2021?

Harsh Mander

· Apr 03, 2022 · 09:00 am

Harsh Mander: The many sacrifices of unsung heroes on India’s Covid-19 frontline

Many at the lower ends of the public health hierarchy were highly stretched, barely recognised, rarely celebrated and almost totally unprotected.

Harsh Mander

· Mar 24, 2022 · 07:30 am

Harsh Mander: Covid-19 has left India’s workers more powerless than ever before

They are now alone in the world, hungry, jobless and with zero bargaining power and protection – and the employers know that.

Harsh Mander

· Mar 15, 2022 · 07:30 am

Harsh Mander: School closures amid Covid-19 have left a whole generation of Indians behind

As education went online during the pandemic, lakhs of children from poorer households with no smartphones and access to the internet were missed out.

Harsh Mander

· Mar 06, 2022 · 09:00 am

Harsh Mander: How many Indians actually died during the second Covid-19 wave?

Some people on the ground offer compelling reasons to believe that the actual toll during the Delta surge was much higher than the official numbers.

Harsh Mander

· Feb 27, 2022 · 07:30 am

Harsh Mander: How India’s middle classes ignored the suffering of the poor during the second wave

The affluent have become bereft of compassion to the deprivation of the socially disadvantaged.

Harsh Mander

· Feb 21, 2022 · 07:30 am