Harsh Mander:A lesson in how to end the mass suffering unleashed by India’s first lockdown
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"I couldn't find
my five year old child
for six hours after the
fire broke."
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"This is an invisible workforce.
people get to see their conditions."
There is no way that
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"I consider myself a woman
but I was born in
a male body."
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"There was a time when I would forage
But today I cook food for so many people."
for food in the dustbin because I was starving.
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"A number of people click photos because
they see a Mullah and a pandit sitting together."
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"Only those who are powerful can fight
Those who are powerless cannot fight."
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As important as what they are fighting for is how they have chosen to fight, writes Harsh Mander in scroll.in
Harsh Mander:Our silence against forces of hate has enabled this Covid crisis
Current moment in pandemic points to systematic undermining of countervailing institutions, and to people’s complicity in cheering an uncaring and incompetent state. writes Harsh Mander in indianexpress.com
Harsh Mander, Jayati Ghosh and Prabhat Patnaik:Prioritising the right to life
The majority of India’s working population is today reeling from the impact of multiple crises: a health emergency more ferocious than any in independent India’ write Harsh Mander, Jayati Ghosh and Prabhat Patnaik in thehindu.com
Natasha Badhwar:The middle class should stop playing the victim now
The Lockdown has pulled down the curtain on the precariousness of the social and economic design of our society.’ writes Natasha Badhwar in tribuneindia.com
Harsh Mander: For India’s migrant workers, the prospect of life with dignity has become more remote
The Supreme Court said it could not rely on studies about the condition of migrant workers by private bodies when the government portrayed a different picture.’ writes Harsh Mander in scroll.in
Harsh Mander: State’s measures to fight coronavirus are stripping the poor of dignity and hope
The Supreme Court said it could not rely on studies about the condition of migrant workers by private bodies when the government portrayed a different picture.’ writes Harsh Mander in scroll.in
Natasha Badhwar:”What will I do when this food runs out?”
Migrant workers found themselves abandoned in their battle against hunger and uncertainty during the lockdown.’ writes Natasha Badhwar in livemint.com
Harsh Mander: What govt could have done differently to deal with the pandemic, what it can still do now
It is apparent the policies of the Union government to battle the pandemic have failed. I believe that the people of India will gravely suffer the consequences of these failures for at least a generation.’ writes Harsh Mander in indianexpress.com
Natasha Badhwar:The urgent impatience of Suraj Yengde
‘When someone who has known oppression and injustice articulates his experience of being marginalised, it resonates deeply.’ writes Natasha Badhwar in livemint.com
Harsh Mander: An invisible humanitarian crisis in India
The state and the rich and middle classes remain indifferent as millions slip into chronic hunger and intense poverty.’ writes Harsh Mander in thehindu.com
14 kms from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, in an inter-college in village Anjan Shaheed is the centre of one of the most powerful community dialogues. Established in 2011, Voice of Azamgarh 90.8 MHz is the only community radio channel in Azamgarh. All the radio jockeys are women who broke out from tradition and patriarchy to make their voice heard.
Vidhya Rajput’s story as a transwoman is a story about love.
his is a story about rights. About reclaiming the right to love, dignity and acceptance.
The right to work and identity.
“Across the country, the same people of the same caste are doing the same exploitative work, because manual scavenging has its roots in caste,” says Sudharak Olwe, documentary photographer, who has been awarded a Padma Shri for his empathetic work. “If you look at their stories, in each case, it is the wife and the children who suffer the most. Eventually the wife has to go back to cleaning toilets.” Despite claims by #SwachhBharat, life for manual scavengers continues to be a descent into darkness and death across India. Powerful images by Sudharak Olwe and Palini Kumar highlight the dehumanized work of manual scavengers and the caste stigma they face. “There are strict laws and a strong judgement from the Supreme Court of India, but at the ground level, the inhuman practice continues,” says Raj Bhushan of Water Aid India.
This film traces the circularity in the pattern of migration in the lives of workers who hail from north Bihar’s Araria district and work as skilled construction labour building Gurdwaras in Punjab. These are people who build the country from below, yet suffer a social and political exclusion that invisibles them. The protagonist Sikendra is a young man whose life, loves and aspirations are divided between his two homes- one where his family is and the other, that his search for livelihood compels him to accept.
