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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.

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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