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‘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 how a place of kindness would look like. → Read More
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. → Read More
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. → Read More
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. → Read More
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? → Read More
As Khargone smoulders, a former civil servant recalls the Ram temple riots in the town in 1989
The Madhya Pradesh town has a long history of communal violence, notes Harsh Mander. → Read More
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. → Read More
Harsh Mander: The ‘love jihad’ bogey in Kashmir is another attempt to deny women freedom of choice
This hate propaganda assumes that adult women who consent to relationships with Muslims are gullible and must be rescued by gallant men. → Read More
The song of a caged bird: A tribute to Fr Stan Swamy
His death is institutional murder by the Indian criminal justice system. → Read More
Harsh Mander: Six months on, India’s protesting farmers are creating history
As important as what they are fighting for is how they have chosen to fight. → Read More
Assam’s youngest legislator shows how elections can be won even with truth, love and poetry
Ashraful Hussain’s story demonstrates that even with flaws in Indian democracy, it is still possible for youth from marginalised groups to get elected. → Read More
Harsh Mander: A lesson in how to end the mass suffering unleashed by India’s first lockdown
A report by the collective Hunger Watch reveals the extent of continuing hunger caused by state policy, and recommends ways to end the distress. → Read More
How Uttar Pradesh became a vigilante state under Adityanath
The chief minister has used the instruments of governance against dissenters and minorities. → Read More
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. → Read More
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. → Read More
Delhi riots: The violence has left a mental health crisis that will last generations
Hundreds of families are facing severe poverty, double displacement, grief, betrayal, and trauma. → Read More
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. → Read More
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. → Read More
Delhi riots: A group of volunteers chronicles stories of despair – and courage
Notes from a makeshift relief control room. → Read More
Delhi riots: Young residents share the trauma of profound loss, betrayal and injustice
A four-part series on the February violence in the capital based on a report titled ‘Chronicling Truth, Countering Hate’. → Read More