Articles by Harsh Mander
To resist the Right, create more Humans of Hindutva Facebook pages and Twitter accounts
The regime and its hordes have silenced one more voice of dissent, of rationality, of youth and of laughter. How many more will be silenced?

Published on Dec 29, 2017 04:48 PM IST
Gujarat election results 2017: Don’t blame BJP only; Congress too dumped the Muslims
The divisive campaign for Gujarat marks a low watershed in the lives of its five million Muslims

Updated on Dec 18, 2017 03:08 PM IST
Hadiya has been denied the right to choose her faith
It’s astounding that an adult woman has been denied the right to choose her faith and partner. This is contrary to every guarantee in the Constitution

Published on Dec 07, 2017 11:12 AM IST
The death of 11-year-old Santoshi is a collective social and political shame
The law guarantees that around half a person’s calorie requirements would be provisioned nearly free through the PDS. But because of the demand that every ration card must be linked to Aadhaar, Santoshi’s family which was admittedly the poorest household in the village, became one among those that fell through the cracks. The law guarantees school meals to children in school, but poverty had led to the family pulling Santoshi out of school.

Published on Nov 10, 2017 12:14 PM IST
BJP can’t ignore new zeal in Dalit resistance against caste violence
The BJP can ignore India’s Muslims and still win power. But they can ignore mounting Dalit anger against upper-caste hate violence and injustice only at their own peril

Updated on Oct 25, 2017 11:00 AM IST
Cash transfers instead of food rations is a bad idea
International research shows that decisions about cash tend to be made by men in a family. There is little guarantee that men will spend the cash transferred to the family on nutrition for the young child. Cash is also vulnerable to inflation, whereas food transfers are inflation-proof

Updated on Oct 05, 2017 11:42 AM IST
Why Jharkhand’s anti-conversion bill is against Constitution and not necessary
Jharkhand’s Religious Freedom Bill, 2017, primarily targets Christians, and goes against the freedom of religious belief in India’s Constitution

Updated on Sep 12, 2017 06:15 PM IST
Let’s Talk About Hate | Lynching could become a national epidemic: Harsh Mander
In Part 7 of Let’s Talk About Hate, Harsh Mander explores if a new law against lynching could combat hate crimes

Updated on Aug 01, 2017 11:48 AM IST
Portland and Ballabhgarh hate attacks: Remarkable similarities but shameful differences
In Portland, US, white co-passengers heroically came to the rescue of the children, and paid for this with their lives. In India, not one passenger came forward when Junaid was lynched

Updated on Jul 06, 2017 06:25 PM IST
These senior IPS officers are examples of a different kind of courage in uniform
It is important to acknowledge the contributions of IPS officers like Rajnish Rai and Satish Verma, who are willing to stake their careers for truth and justice

Updated on Jun 16, 2017 12:16 AM IST
Job creation in high-growth India should be a top priority
There are almost no jobs available in India’s high-growth economy. Job creation has plummeted to levels even below those of preceding UPA governments. Of the one million new people who join the workforce every month, only 0.01% of new workers added to the work force actually found work.

Updated on May 23, 2017 09:47 PM IST
BJP must not invoke Gandhi to seek death for those who kill a cow
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat may have called for a nationwide ban on cow slaughter only now, but the rot had set in much earlier

Updated on May 31, 2017 04:58 PM IST
Don’t look away from stories of oppression and exclusion around us
Rohith Vemula’s is one of the most damning and painful indictments of the India and the world today which we have crafted together.

Updated on Apr 03, 2017 09:48 PM IST
15 years after Godhra riots: The politics of hate still divides us
What is less recognised of the so-called Gujarat Model is the systematic reduction of India’s religious minorities to second-class citizenship... The second-class citizenship of Muslims extends also to Christians, Dalits and tribal people in Gujarat as well

Updated on Feb 27, 2017 08:08 PM IST
In real terms, the government is providing less expenditure for NREGA
Do not expect this government to muster the moral and political resolve required to undertake large redistributive expenditures for India’s poor masses

Published on Feb 02, 2017 11:30 AM IST
Can Mayawati stop the BJP-RSS rath in Uttar Pradesh?
In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP-RSS combine is using its usual communal card. The Samajwadi Party is complicit. Rahul Gandhi has tried to raise some relevant issues, but it’s not backed by credible evidence of sustained ground-level engagement. That leaves the BSP-led Mayawati. If indeed the Dalit and Muslim voters across UP heed Mayawati’s call, it is she who will form the next government in Lucknow

Updated on Nov 08, 2016 10:56 PM IST
The Mewat Biryani raids have permanently damaged livelihoods of poor Muslims
Apart from the long shadows that the Haryana police biryani raids cast on Eid festivities, the even more permanent damage they inflicted was on the livelihoods of thousands of poor Muslims

Updated on Sep 29, 2016 01:19 AM IST
Eight years after Kandhamal violence, justice still evades many
The Kandhamal communal violence should not be forgotten because for many of its victims justice has been denied

Updated on Sep 14, 2016 10:41 PM IST
Angry Dalits in Gujarat won’t take it lying down
The Dalit anger in Gujarat and elsewhere is against the traditions that have weighed down the community over centuries

Updated on Aug 17, 2016 11:45 PM IST
Is it sacrilege for upper castes to clean toilets?
The fury and indignation of upper caste organisations that members of their caste could even be invited to apply for the post of a sanitation worker is instructive about how entrenched the idea of caste remains in India.

Updated on Jul 27, 2016 07:56 AM IST
There’s little to cheer in the Gulberg Society massacre verdict
The recent ruling of the special SIT court in the massacre of 64 people in the Gulberg Society in Ahemdabad in 2002 illustrates the limits of the possibilities of full justice in the context of persisting institutional bias

Updated on Jun 18, 2016 11:00 PM IST
Muzaffarnagar riots: Judicial panel fails to hold up the light to truth
The judicial panel on the Muzaffarnagar riots frees the politicians from any culpability and legitimises the communal version about the violence

Updated on May 19, 2016 07:16 AM IST
Why are Indian students angry
The recent protests in university campuses were not only a battle for freedom of speech but also a demand for acceptance of disadvantaged students

Published on Apr 24, 2016 10:42 PM IST
Terrorism and communal violence must carry same stigma and punishment
Stigma and law must apply equally to those who participate in terror crimes and to those who target people for their religious or caste identity

Updated on Mar 16, 2016 01:16 AM IST
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IMA needs to introspect on state of private medical services
The Indian Medical Association needs to introspect on the state of private medical services in an unequal market-led India writes Harsh Mander

Updated on Nov 20, 2015 01:29 AM IST
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