The Prosecution & Persecution Of Harsh Mander: A Case Study of India's Accelerating Democratic Decline
How the prosecution of Harsh Mander, peace activist and former Indian official, reflects the decline recorded by global freedom surveys in India's democracy and its rule of law.
#HarshMander #activism #dissent #ED #CBI #BJP #GujaratRiots #GujaratPogrom #communalism #NarendraModi #NGOs #RuleOfLaw #IndianMuslims #HumanRights ##hindutva #india
CBI Conducts Raids at Rights Activist Harsh Mander's Office, Home in Delhi
Central agencies have been under fire for focused attention on those who coincidentally are government critics, in the opposition or not aligned with the BJP's political project.
#HarshMander #CBI #dissent #activism #UnionGovt #BJP #india
https://thewire.in/rights/cbi-conducts-raids-at-rights-activist-harsh-manders-office-home-in-delhi
West Bengal: Civil Society is Mobilizing People to Vote for INDIA
The INDIA Alliance may not have declared their seat-sharing plans for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls yet, but civil society in West Bengal is mobilizing people to vote for INDIA. The United Forum of Vote for INDIA organized a rally in the heart of Kolkata, with participants including members of the Matua community, Dalits, and Muslims. Prominent social and human rights activists addressed the gathering.
https://enewsroom.in/vote-india-kolkata-2024-lok-sabha-elections/
#WestBengal #INDIAAlliance #elections2024 #HumanRights #dalits #adivasis #muslims #matuas #HarshMander #RajRatanAmbedkar #SCST #BJP #hindutva #india
Book review: A scathing indictment of what was done by an administration to a people unprepared for a pandemic
A review of Harsh Mander's 'Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy'. As he journals the length and breadth of India, one cannot help but give Mr Mander credit for the number and range of real-life anecdotes he has attempted to document here.
#BookReview #HarshMander #covid19 #CovidMismanagement #CovidDeathToll #CovidLockdown #MigrantLabourers #UnionGovt #BJP #india #books #nonfiction #bookstodon #health #healthcare
From Manipur, A Peace Activist’s Account Of State Criminality & Culpability
In this blow-by-blow account, peace activist Harsh Mander describes his journey to Manipur, where he met Meitei and Kuki families broken by three months of ethnic violence, life inside the camps where hundreds live in despair, unsure if they will ever return to their scorched villages, and the “extreme culpability” of a seemingly partisan state that has done little to help the minority Christians who have been killed and uprooted in greater numbers.
#manipur #ManipurViolence #meiteis #kukis #christians #displacement #ManipurRapes #BirenSingh #ManipurGovt #BJP #HarshMander #JohnDayal #KarwanEMohabbat #activism #india
I write to rage, and rescue ourselves from collective amnesia, says Harsh Mander, speaking on India’s Covid experience
Harsh Mander’s new book demands accountability from the state for its handling of the pandemic’s impact.
#covid19 #HarshMander #healthcare #CovidMismanagement #BJP #books #bookstodon #interview #health #medicine #india
How ‘shramik’ trains added to the misery of the poor during the Covid-19 lockdown
An excerpt from Harsh Mander's ‘Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People: India’s Covid Tragedy’.
#BookExcerpt #HarshMander #covid19 #CovidLockdown #CovidDeathToll #MigrantLabourers #MigrantWorkers #governance #health #covid #welfare #UnionGovt #BJP #india #books #bookstodon
FCRA licence of Harsh Mander’s think tank suspended because he wrote articles for newspapers
The ministry also accused the Centre for Equity Studies of using foreign contributions to create and release reports authored by non-FCRA associations.
#HarshMander #FCRA #dissent #activism #censorship #MHA #BJP #india
Why a special court judge had jailed BJP MLA Maya Kodnani for 26 years
Harsh Mander looks back at the Gujarat violence of 2002.
#GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #gujarat #MayaKodnani #BJP #BilkisBano #NarendraModi #CommunalViolence #HinduMobs #justice #law #genocide #rape #hindutva #india #HarshMander
TW: rape
Centre Recommends CBI Inquiry Against Activist Harsh Mander's NGO
Harsh Mander, who was a member of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council during the previous UPA government, has established Aman Biradari -- "a people's campaign for a secular, peaceful, just and humane world".
#HarshMander #activism #AmanBiradari #NGOs #CBI #MHA #FCRA #GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #BJP #UnionGovt #india
Harsh Mander: Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002?
Reconstructing the murder in Ahmedabad of the politician-poet during the Gujarat riots.
#archives #GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #EhsanJafri #gujarat #ahmedabad #meghaninagar #ZakiaJafri #GulbargSociety #MassRape #NarendraModi #modi #BJP #VHP #hindutva #muslims #history #AshishKhetan #HarshMander #india
https://scroll.in/article/1028354/harsh-mander-whatever-happened-to-ehsan-jafri-on-february-28-2002
As the wealthy converge on Davos to discuss the world’s problems, a case for taxing the rich
Harsh Mander and Prabhat Patnaik discuss funding universal social and economic rights, not just a universal basic income, in a time of widening inequalities.
#conversation #HarshMander #PrabhatPatnaik #interview #economy #inequality #billionaires #capitalism #labour #labor #poverty #adani #ambani #LabourRights #unemployment #wealth #oxfam #india
முன்னாள் ஐ.ஏ.எஸ். ஹர்ஷ் மந்தரைப் பழிவாங்கும் மோடி அரசாங்கத்தின் செயல் கண்டிக்கத்தது... #Activist #HarshMander #ModiGovt
RT @navjivanindia@twitter.com
प्रवर्तन निदेशालय ने सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और पूर्व आईएएस #HarshMander के घर, दफ्तर और उनके द्वारा चलाए जा रहे चिल्ड्रन होम पर छापे मारे हैं। हर्ष मंदर आज सुबह की जर्मनी के लिए रवाना हुए हैं। @ashlinpmathew@twitter.com की रिपोर्ट https://www.navjivanindia.com/news/ed-raids-harsh-mander-residence-office-and-children-homes-soon-after-he-left-for-germany-on-a-scholarship
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/navjivanindia/status/1438428689109340161
RT @NH_India@twitter.com
Sources said ex-IAS officer and activist #HarshMander and his wife left for #Germany early on Thursday for a fellowship. Mander started Karwan-e-Mohabbat in 2017 to support survivors of hate crimes. #EDRaids @ashlinpmathew@twitter.com https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/ed-raids-activist-harsh-manders-home-ngo-it-dept-lands-up-at-shelter-home-for-boys-run-by-him
दिल्ली पुलिस का दावा- हर्ष मंदर ने बार-बार SC के खिलाफ लोगों को भड़काया
नई दिल्ली : सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता हर्ष मंदर के खिलाफ लोगों को हिंसा के लिए भड़काने और न्यायपालिका के बारे में अवमानना भरी बातें कहने के मामले में सुनवाई आज टल गई. मंदर के फिलहाल भारत में
https://hindi.hwnews.in/news/political/delhi-police-ka-dawa-harsh-mander/85729
#DelhiViolence #featured #HarshMander #supremecourt
People accusing #HarshMander of inciting violence and spreading hate by making a speech espousing non-violence and love, is (yet another) triumph of propaganda over rationality.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/long-live-constitution-long-live-love-full-speech-of-harsh-mander-which-according-to-sg-tushar-mehta-incited-violence-during-anti-caa-protests-8121401.html
#HarshMander's writings on Gujarat during 2002 opened my eyes. He is the man I will trust with my life when it comes to upholding religious harmony and peace. #IStandWithHarshMander
Appalling that@DelhiPolice have to resort to an edited and distorted video of #HarshMander's speech to try and establish a hate charge against this most peaceful and tolerant of persons!
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RT @nikhilmkss
Not just the right wing. The Solicitor General of India , and the affidavit submitted by the police in the Supreme Court as well. #HarshMandar has always stood for peace; support to the most neglected; and th…
https://twitter.com/nikhilmkss/status/1235298136245121024
Worst case, what Harsh Mander said could be contempt of court (though no rational judge should take it as contempt). Anyhow, there is a difference between that and plain hate speech with communal overtone.
Just basic stuff.
#HarshMandar
#HarshMander
