Karwan-e-Mohabbat a month-long journey across the country, led and conceptualised by activist and author, Harsh Mander, the caravan is a group of 40 people including professors, journalists, artists, students, lawyers and activists, who are traveling across the country to visit families who have survived lynchings.

So far, the caravan has covered parts of Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The intention of the journey is to meet, listen and express solidarity with families whose members have been lynched and forge links between different communities.

An appeal Harsh Mander has written sharing his reasons, seeking support and funds for the journey contains the following excerpt:

“We need to interrogate the reasons for our silences, for our failures to speak out, and to intervene, when murderous hate is unleashed on innocent lives. We need our conscience to ache. We need it to be burdened intolerably.”