April 19, A new publication by a civil rights organization, Housing and Land Rights Network India (HLRN), “Forced Evictions in India in 2018: An Unabating National Crisis”, has discussed different dimensions of... Read more »
By Rajiv Shah April 18, The Government of India’s (GoI) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, launched in 2016 in order to promote the use of clean cooking fuel to villagers by subsidizing liquid... 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 »
Chennai, April 16 (IANS) Caste intricacies has tied up the elections in Tamil Nadu in several knots because of a cluttered four-cornered contest throwing up new factors. The four corners in the poll... Read more »
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Death of two people in Andhra Pradesh clashes, an IED blast in Maharashtra, reports of EVM glitches and multiple complaints from voters about their names not being on the electoral... Read more »
By Anjan Basu April 10, As a boy, the German novelist Max von der Grun heard the news of Hitler becoming the Reich Chancellor over the radio on 30 January, 1933 .... Read more »
By Sheshu Babu In cities and towns, one often comes across heaps of garbage on roadsides and poor — mostly slum dwellers, children — hovering around the pile. These people are mostly... 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 »
By Prashant Sood Saharanpur, March 31 (IANS) Among the seats in Western Uttar Pradesh seats going to the polls in the first phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Saharanpur presents a unique... Read more »
By Amit Kapoor March 30 (IANS) The benefits of diversity in the workforce are known to give companies a competitive edge and this, in turn, enables higher growth. A 2018 McKinsey &... Read more »
By Payal Mohta March 29, Priyanka Dubey, an award-winning journalist, spent six years researching and documenting India’s unreported rape cases for her new book, “No Nation For Women – Reporting On Rape... Read more »
March 28, Economic inequality in India is at record high levels and the next government will have to seriously address this issue, “rather than just focusing on growth as it has been... Read more »
March 21, The chapter “Freedom of Movement” of the US State Department’s “India 2018 Human Rights Report”, released recently, has criticized BJP chief Amit Shah for terming alleged Bangladeshis who may be... Read more »
March, 20, In December 2016, as part of a curriculum rationalisation exercise initiated under the BJP government, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) issued a circular to all its affiliated schools... Read more »
March 12, A United Nations Human Rights Council report released on Sunday, March 10, noted that women human rights activists from minority and indigenous background in the country are more prone to... Read more »
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, March 12 (IANS) The fair sex is not getting a fair deal in tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh – but Rattan Manjari will have none of this. She is... Read more »
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala/Guwahati, March 12 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party has embarked on a do-or-die battle to win as many of the 25 Lok Sabha seats as it can in eight northeastern... Read more »
By Moin Qazi March 25, All lives have equal value. No matter where they live on the planet. No matter what state, city, and country you’re born in, whether you are male,... 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 »
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) India’s flagship programme, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), which though showed significant strides, has not benefitted all groups equally, a study said on Thursday, showing fewer gains in... Read more »