2. About the author

Harsh Mander was born on April \(17th\), \(1955\). He is an Indian author, writer, researcher, teacher, and social activist who founded the Karwan-e-Mohabbat campaign in support of victims of communal and religious violence. He is the Director of the New Delhi-based Centre for Equity Studies. He was also a member of the National Advisory Council of the Government of India, which was established by the UPA government, and a Special Commissioner to the Supreme Court of India in the Right to Food Campaign.

 

Mander worked for almost two decades in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), mostly in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which are largely tribal areas. Mander resigned from the army in \(2002\) following the Gujarat riots, and began social activism. He is one of the founders of the National Campaign for the People's Right to Information. He was a member of the Core Groups on Bonded Labour and Mental Hospitals of the statutory National Human Rights Commission of India and also served on various national official national committees such as those for Social Protection and the Below Poverty Line (BPL) populations.

 

Some of his selected publications include: