Harsch ManderHarsh Mander is an Indian author, columnist, researcher, teacher, and social activist who started the Karwan-e-Mohabbat campaign in solidarity with the victims of communal or religiously motivated violence. He is the Director of the Centre for EquityStudies, a research organisation based in New Delhi. He also served as Special Commissioner to the Supreme Court of India in the Right to Food Campaign. He was a member of the National Advisory Council of the Government of India, set up under the UPA government. Harsh Mander has written and co-authored[1] several books and regularly writes columns[ for newspapers like The Hindu, Hindustan Times and Dainik Bhaskar, and contributes frequently to scholarly journals. His stories have been adapted into films such as Shyam Benegal's Samar, and Mallika Sarabhai's dance drama, Unsuni. Some of his selected publications include: (2019) 'Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat' (New Delhi, Yoda Press); (2019) 'The Right to Food Debates: Social Protection for Food Security in India' (New Delhi, Orient Blackswan) (authored with Ashwin Parulkar, Ankita Aggarwal); (2018) 'Reconciliation: Karwan e Mohabbat's Journey of Solidarity through a Wounded India' (New Delhi, Context) (co-authored with Natasha Badhwar); (2016) 'Fatal Accidents of Birth: Stories of Suffering, Oppression and Resistance' (New Delhi, Speaking Tiger Books) (2015) 'Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India' (New Delhi, Speaking Tiger Books); (2012) 'Ash in the Belly: India's Unfinished Battle Against Hunger' (New Delhi, Penguin India); (2009) 'Fear and Forgiveness' (New Delhi, Penguin India) Read More Read Less