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Harsh Mander

Harsh Mander

Harsh Mander is an activist and author of several books including, Fractured Freedom: Chronicles from India’s Margins and Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India.

Articles by Harsh Mander

To resist the Right, create more Humans of Hindutva Facebook pages and Twitter accounts

A screenshot of Humans of Hindutva Facebook page

Updated on Dec 29, 2017 11:18 IST

Gujarat election results 2017: Don’t blame BJP only; Congress too dumped the Muslims

Never in any of his election speeches did Rahul Gandhi use the M word – Muslim. He did not touch once upon the gruesome massacre of 2002 under the watch of Modi. He expressed no solidarity or anguish that Muslims in Gujarat after 2002 have been reduced to second-class citizens, denied housing in colonies of Hindus and Jains, masking their Muslim identity as auto drivers or owners of roadside restaurants and bakeries, making no claims on the government.

Updated on Dec 18, 2017 09:38 IST

Hadiya has been denied the right to choose her faith

Twenty-four-year-old Hadiya (in red) at the Supreme Court, New Delhi, India, November 27, 2017

Updated on Dec 7, 2017 05:42 IST

The death of 11-year-old Santoshi is a collective social and political shame

District administration officials with police visiting the family members of 11-year-old Santoshi who died of starvation

Updated on Nov 10, 2017 06:44 IST

BJP can’t ignore new zeal in Dalit resistance against caste violence

A protest at Jantar Mantar against the injustice towards Dalits in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh (File Photo)

Updated on Oct 25, 2017 05:30 IST

Cash transfers instead of food rations is a bad idea

Every third malnourished child in the world is Indian. Every third child in India is malnourished. They deserve much better from their governments than escape paths to the central duty of a caring state to ensure adequate nutritious food in their bellies

Updated on Oct 5, 2017 06:12 IST

Why Jharkhand’s anti-conversion bill is against Constitution and not necessary

Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das. Jharkhand will not be the first government to pass an anti-conversion law if this is voted for by the state assembly. Anti-conversion laws were passed in Orissa in 1967, in Madhya Pradesh in 1968, in Gujarat in 2003 and Chhattisgarh in 2006. The only Congress government to pass such a law was in Himachal Pradesh in 2006 (File Photo)

Updated on Sep 12, 2017 12:45 IST

Let’s Talk About Hate | Lynching could become a national epidemic: Harsh Mander

Updated on Aug 1, 2017 06:18 IST

Portland and Ballabhgarh hate attacks: Remarkable similarities but shameful differences

Protestors at a ‘Not in my name’ rally, Mumbai, June 28, 2017

Updated on Jul 6, 2017 12:55 IST

These senior IPS officers are examples of a different kind of courage in uniform

The investigations by senior police officers Satish Varma and Rajnish Rai led ultimately to the charge-sheeting and arrest of the then Home Minister of Gujarat and several senior police officers involved in the ‘purported encounter’ killing of 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan

Updated on Jun 15, 2017 18:46 IST

Job creation in high-growth India should be a top priority

Employment in the formal sector has fallen since 1997. More and more people are being pushed into either lowest-end self-employment; or the most unprotected and casualised wage employment.

Updated on May 23, 2017 16:17 IST

BJP must not invoke Gandhi to seek death for those who kill a cow

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath feeding cows at Gorakhpur. One of the private member’s bills that Yogi Adityanath had introduced in Parliament includes one seeking a nationwide ban on the slaughter of the ‘cow and its entire progeny’.

Updated on May 31, 2017 11:28 IST

Don’t look away from stories of oppression and exclusion around us

Rohith Vemula's mother Radhika Vemula detained by Delhi Police during the candle march in New Delhi, February 24

Updated on Apr 3, 2017 16:18 IST

15 years after Godhra riots: The politics of hate still divides us

Survivors look at the pictures of the Godhra riots victims at a photo-exhibition held to commemorate its 10th anniversary in Ahmedabad, February 27, 2012.

Updated on Feb 27, 2017 14:38 IST

In real terms, the government is providing less expenditure for NREGA

Villagers working at pond construction project under a NREGA at Niredh village in Latehar district. The seismic distress created by demonetisation is likely to result in a continuing surge for wage work in NREGA.

Updated on Feb 2, 2017 06:00 IST

Can Mayawati stop the BJP-RSS rath in Uttar Pradesh?

BJP national president Amit Shah with supporters during an election rally, Saharanpur, November 5

Updated on Nov 8, 2016 17:26 IST

Mr Khattar, this is not a ‘small issue’

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Updated on Sep 29, 2016 03:09 IST

The Mewat Biryani raids have permanently damaged livelihoods of poor Muslims

The biryani stalls of Mewat were a source of decent livelihood to 15,000 people. It is estimated that around 3,000 such stalls operated across the district.

Updated on Sep 28, 2016 19:49 IST

Where fear is still a reality

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Updated on Sep 15, 2016 01:49 IST

Eight years after Kandhamal violence, justice still evades many

A vehicle burns inside a church in Nuagoan village in Kandhamal district, Orissa, August 25, 2008

Updated on Sep 14, 2016 17:11 IST

Discontent now out in the open

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Updated on Aug 18, 2016 02:44 IST

Angry Dalits in Gujarat won’t take it lying down

Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohit Vemula, and others attend Dalit rally in Una in Gujarat on August 15

Updated on Aug 17, 2016 18:15 IST

Roles that are cast in stone

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Updated on Jul 27, 2016 03:44 IST

Is it sacrilege for upper castes to clean toilets?

For centuries we have thrust chores we regard to be unclean and socially humiliating on people of the lowest, most oppressed castes.

Updated on Jul 27, 2016 02:26 IST

Little closure for the families of the victims

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Updated on Jun 20, 2016 04:48 IST

There’s little to cheer in the Gulberg Society massacre verdict

A file photo of a biker passing near a burning vehicle during the riots in Ahmedabad, 2002

Updated on Jun 18, 2016 17:30 IST

Muzaffarnagar riots: Judicial panel fails to hold up the light to truth

The popular imagination about the Muzaffarnagar communal violence remains that it was sparked off by the sexual harassment by a Muslim youth at Kawal in Muzaffarnagar of a Jat girl.

Updated on May 19, 2016 01:46 IST

Why are Indian students angry

AISA students demand justice for Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in New Delhi, April 23

Updated on Apr 24, 2016 17:12 IST

Terrorism and communal violence must carry same stigma and punishment

Among the survivors of these crimes — many of whom fight epic and hopeless battles for justice like the widows of the 1984 Sikh massacre or the survivors of the 2002 Gujarat massacre — there is little popular outrage that these crimes go unpunished

Updated on Mar 15, 2016 19:46 IST

IMA needs to introspect on state of private medical services

India’s public spending on healthcare, at just above 1% of GDP, is among the lowest in the world. By contrast, Brazil spends 4.7%, China 3.1% and the United States 8.1%.

Updated on Nov 19, 2015 19:59 IST

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