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The Gentle Warrior
Hassan Mansur (1930-2014) was a doyen of the human rights movement in Karnataka. He was a former professor of English in Bangalore University, a lover of the works of James Joyce, an avid reader of the Economic & Political Weekly, and an early forerunner of the human rights movement in the state. He founded the Karnataka Civil Liberties Committee (KCLC) in 1984; he went on to work for the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) with which he was then associated for the rest of his life.
Hassan Mansur (1930-2014) was a doyen of the human rights movement in Karnataka. He was a former professor of English in Bangalore University, a lover of the works of James Joyce, an avid reader of the Economic & Political Weekly, and an early forerunner of the human rights movement in the state. He founded the Karnataka Civil Liberties Committee (KCLC) in 1984; he went on to work for the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) with which he was then associated for the rest of his life.
Hassan Mansur’s career in the human rights movement however began early as a young communist activist, who at the age of 19, was arrested by the Broadway Police, Shivajinagar way back in the early years of Independence. Formed by this early experience with the police, Hassan Mansur went on to become a tireless advocate against police violence as the face, and indeed the heart, of the PUCL in Karnataka.
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