By Shamsul Islam Today India has turned into a grazing field for all kinds of religious bigots led by the Hindutva gang. Even the Prime Minister of the country, who took oath... Read more »
Edited by well-known Gujarat Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan, the book, “Bhed-Bharat: An Account of Injustice and Atrocities on Dalits and Adivasis (2014-18)” (available in English and Gujarati*) is a selection of... Read more »
Araku Valley, the highlands of the Eastern Ghats mountain range overlooking the Bay of Bengal, is brewing one of the best coffees in the world and its aroma just got headier with... Read more »
By Teesta Setalvad April 6, Its been a challenging five years. Between 2017-2019 (between when the book was first published) until now, the lines have been even more sharply drawn. Between the vast... Read more »
April 4, School feeding programs are ubiquitous. The World Food Program estimated that in 2013, 368 million children, or 1 in 5, received a school meal at a total cost of US$... Read more »
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Over 200 writers and artistes including Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad, Keki Daruwalla, T.M. Krishna, and Nayantara Sahgal on Monday appealed to citizens to vote against hate politics and... Read more »
By Anand Singh Amethi, March 30 (IANS) It’s 8 p.m. and Kushi Ram, a resident of Baraulia village, is preparing to go to go to save his farm from the menace of the... Read more »
March 28, When it first arrived, ‘Western medicine’ was simply another addition to the giant melting pot of India’s vibrant medical traditions, including vaidyas, hakims and adivasi healers. For a long time,... Read more »
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The plight of refugees and their constant state of movement and instability became the central theme of “1 Sq Ft”, a contemporary dance act by... Read more »
By Mohammed Shafeeq Araku (Andhra Pradesh), March 4 (IANS) From tribal hamlets to Paris, Araku coffee has come a long way and is set to lure the taste buds of New York’s coffee... Read more »
By Abhilasha Chattopadhyay March 2, “There is a well-known story about a frog, which when thrown into boiling water, reacts immediately by jumping out. By contrast, if the frog is placed into lukewarm... Read more »
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Feb 28 (IANS) Poverty has not stopped nonagenarian Thanga Darlong — all of 91 years — from playing the rosem, a flute-like tribal musical instrument made of bamboo. This... Read more »
By Mohan Guruswamy Feb 26, Late last year, two young men decided to live a month of their lives on the income of an average poor Indian. One of them, Tushar, the... Read more »
Feb 25, As many as 28 Korean human rights and civil organizations, in a joint statement titled “Seoul Peace Prize to PM Modi: Why should we feel embarrassed, while they know no... Read more »
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Ahmed Ali from Assam’s Karimganj district, while pulling his cycle rickshaw one day in the late 1970s, felt miserable at the realization that like him... Read more »
By Saeed Naqvi Feb 22 (IANS) Prem Shankar Jhas column in The Wire caused my mind to wander in an unlikely direction: Kanpur riots soon after the demolition of Babari Masjid. Jhas... Read more »
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Some years ago, I was startled at a seminar titled “Seeking our collective peace: The northeast India diaspora looks into solutions for peace and development... Read more »
Feb 20, The crisis in Education has resulted from the failure of successive Central and state governments to strategically plan, and financially and administratively invest in creating the necessary infrastructure to achieve... Read more »
Feb 16, For the very first time, a Dalit Festival is going to be held in New York on February 23 and 24 organised by the Ambedkar Association of North America (AANA), Boston... Read more »
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) Manipur’s legendary human rights activist Irom Sharmila, who continued a fast-unto-death protest for 16 years demanding repeal of an Act, on Friday said she dreams of a world without... Read more »