Harsh Mander

Harsh Mander is a writer, columnist, researcher, Chairperson, Centre for Equity Studies, Delhi, and visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad; Vrije University, Amsterdam; Heidelberg University; and FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. His 25 books include Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed its People: India’s Covid Tragedy (2023), Partitions of the Heart: Unmaking the Idea of India (2018), Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India (2015), Ash in the Belly: India’s Unfinished Battle against Hunger (2012). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of York, the inaugural Human Rights Award by the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg University, and was shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. Years: 2025, 2021, 2016.