# Harsh Mander On The Indian State Elections

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Published: 2026-05-18T20:22:38+00:00
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Gil Halsted and Amitabh Pal recorded a Zoom interview with Dr. Harsh Mander in India on the most recent Indian elections in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Assam. Harsh Mander is an Indian author, columnist, researcher, teacher, speaker and social activist who resigned from the Indian Administrative Service in protest against the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim violence. Since then he has been one of India’s most steadfast voices against communal hatred and for the constitutional vision of Gandhi and Ambedkar for India. He’s worked with survivors of mass violence, hunger, homeless persons, street children and many others. We’ve interviewed Harsh Mander for World View in the past about Indian elections and about his book about the COVID-19 pandemic in India and we were honored to be able to talk to him again about Indian politics and the erosion of democracy that has always been the pride of India. Dr. Mander has recently made a series of podcasts on regional politics for Himal Southasian online magazine. About Himal Southasian magazine http://www.himalmag.com/about-himal You can find his podcasts on the Himal website by using the search feature at the top of the page. Dr. Mander’s more than 25 books include: Under Grey Smoggy Skies: Living Homeless on the Streets of India's Cities, Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed its People, When the Mask Came Off: Lockdown 2020: A People's History of Cruelty and Compassion, This Land Is Mine, I Am Not Of This Land CAA-NRC And The Manufacture Of Statelessness, Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat, Partitions of the Heart: Unmaking the Idea of India, Fatal Accidents of Birth: Stories of Suffering, Oppression and Resistance, Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference…

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