Harsh Mander

Peace & justice worker, writer, teacher
With @KarwaneMohabbat to battle hate with radical love
Loves family, friends, cinema, books, Hindi songs
And kindness

[Democracy Lighthouse @DemoLighthouse]

The latest edition of the Democracy Lighthouse Digest is now live! It features an interview with @harsh_mander on the BJP's different idea of India. It also includes @Planet_Deb article on the emergence of the cockroach movement in India and a link to the latest book from @itihaasnaama and @OrnitShani on the making of India's constitution.

Read the full digest here https://t.co/ACxUa50ykO

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

In early 2000s, Cipla decided to sell life-saving AIDS medicine for $350 a year, or roughly $1 a day, compared to Western prices of between $10,000 -$15,000 a year. https://t.co/l94pb2i1Oo
@harsh_mander discusses how humanism of Cipla founder, Yusuf Hamied, made drugs affordable.

[Karwan e Mohabbat (Caravan of Love) @karwanemohabbat]

In a new book, ⁦@harsh_mander⁩ illustrates how poor social conditions can cause long-term illnesses.

An important book in today’s context https://t.co/YJd8HbRrze

[Speaking Tiger @speakingtiger14]

An extract from @harsh_mander’s latest book:

[Hindus for Human Rights @Hindus4HR]

We are honored to welcome @harsh_mander to our Advisory Board.

A human rights 7 peace worker, writer, teacher, and founder of Karwan e Mohabbat, Harsh has spent decades standing w communities facing hunger, homelessness, hate violence, and state neglect.
https://t.co/dIHyd3583L

[Sunita Viswanath @SunitaSunitaV]

We are deeply honored that you have joined our advisory board @harsh_mander. No one has done more to stand with India’s religious minorities and flood out hate with love, than you.

[Harsh Mander @harsh_mander]

Privileged to be on @Hindus4HR Advisory Body
HfHR attempts to carry forward the legacy of Gandhiji
Gandhi a deeply devout Hindu
He gave his life to defend the equal right of citizenship of Indian Muslims
In these times of hate, solidarity & justice efforts of HfHR are exemplary

[Hindus for Human Rights @Hindus4HR]

We are honored to welcome @harsh_mander to our Advisory Board.

A human rights 7 peace worker, writer, teacher, and founder of Karwan e Mohabbat, Harsh has spent decades standing w communities facing hunger, homelessness, hate violence, and state neglect.
https://t.co/dIHyd3583L

[Harsh Mander @harsh_mander]

A dangerous red line is crossed the Modi govt when the state distrusts its own citizen
Anyone can be asked to prove they belong
It distrusts even its own documents like Aadhar & passports
The state feels free to snatch anyone's citizenship at will
https://t.co/lT2v4P3CRQ

[ANKUR TIBREWAL @ankurbtpl]

"This forces me to confront the possibility that it takes more than just bad people seizing power to destroy democracies. Perhaps democracies decay because ordinary, decent people keep finding reasons to excuse it."
The writer sums up d feeling of so many, including myself.

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

"The greatest challenge was not legal or technical. It was human. Behind every statistic was a child.

Our investigators were not simply analysing documents or verifying satellite images. They were repeatedly watching videos of children being killed, mutilated, stripped, tortured, and permanently disabled. Every case represented a life interrupted."

~ Justice S. Muralidhar, Chair of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel

https://t.co/FUJnAc3hCr

[Saba Naqvi @_sabanaqvi]

The most disturbing thing that’s happening is people whose names have been cut off from voter lists are being cut off from all welfare schemes. It’s being done in Bengal and will be followed by BJP regimes in Hindi belt. It has serious ramifications for many poor families besides Muslims. It’s not a communal war but a class/caste issue at many levels. And it’s not a war to begin with when the state and actors backed by it target minorities and socially/economic sections of society. Please be aware that discrimination just climbed another notch.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

I had the great privilege of knowing this remarkable man in my student days, as my friend @harsh_mander’s father. His compassion, wisdom, humanity and grace shone through in even the slightest interaction. My Pranaams to Shri Har Mander Singh ji on his centenary. 🙏🏼 ओम 🕉️ शांति!

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Barbaric. Bloodthirsty. Cruel & evil.
As a nation how did we end up standing with these killers?

[Shama Parveen @ShamaParveen70]

इंसानियत का कोई धर्म नहीं होता, उसका सिर्फ़ एक नाम होता है मोहब्बत।

सहारनपुर की सुनीता अरोड़ा 180 किलोमीटर का सफर तय करके जंतर-मंतर सिर्फ़ इसलिए पहुँचीं क्योंकि उन्होंने रोज़ एक नौजवान, मोहम्मद जुनैद, को बिना किसी भेदभाव के लोगों की मदद करते देखा था।

मुलाकात होते ही सुनीता जी की आँखें भर आईं। उन्होंने कहा "बेटा, तेरी माँ तुझसे मिलने सहारनपुर से आई है ऐसे ही हिंदू-मुस्लिम एकता और इंसानियत की मिसाल बनकर लोगों की सेवा करते रहना" यह दृश्य बता गया कि नफ़रत की दीवारें चाहे जितनी ऊँची हों, इंसानियत और मोहब्बत उन्हें हमेशा पार कर जाती है।

यही है भारत की असली पहचान प्यार, भाईचारा और इंसानियत।

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

"To my friends, anything. To my enemies, the law."

[Karwan e Mohabbat (Caravan of Love) @karwanemohabbat]

Citizens and Civil Society Groups Issue Urgent Appeal to Halt Escalating Violence in Manipur | ⁦@harsh_mander⁩ https://t.co/R1v7ZckN2g

[Maktoob @MaktoobMedia]

Recalling the hanging of Ajmal Kasab

This is the second part of a five-part review of @harsh_mander 's Terror Crimes in India and the Judicial Conscience.

https://t.co/BPxKp5FOLY

[Harsh Mander @harsh_mander]

This beautiful heart-felt essay asks if you can remain friends with people you love but who carry so much irrational hate in their hearts for Muslims
He writes with sadness, not judgment
It could be the story of literally thousands of Indians in new India
https://t.co/k5GraMAHiC

[Harsh Mander @harsh_mander]

Important that every Indian listens to findings of UN Commission led by Justice Muralidhar on Palestine
He describes deliberate targeting by Israel of Palestinian children, killing 20k, injuring 40k, rendering orphan 60k children
We can’t allow our govt to support this genocide

[T M Krishna @tmkrishna]

We celebrate any person of Indian origin who does anything in any part of the world. But have very little space in media when retired Judge S Muralidhar headed United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory releases such an important report. It is not about Justice Muralidhar, but about the fact that we care very little about things that really matter.
https://t.co/i26ZSfSqwr

[Rahul Easwar @RahulEaswar]

One of best articles - written @harsh_mander ji against #UrbanNazis #HinduMuslim unity. Pluralism

https://t.co/M7DBIkPcXw