The government’s aggressive moves to open up the farm sector to corporate control under the PPP model are fraught with danger. They can lead to the w

On the United States and the strategic rivalry between India and China in the Indo-Pacific region.

Interview with Anand Grover, senior advocate.

The courts are obliged to do justice in individual cases and must deal with the inability of the accused to engage a lawyer when no lawyer is willing

The inherent danger of corporatisation of the farm sector is price volatility and the alignment of domestic food prices with international food and oi

Sajitha Shankar’s “Alterbodies” transcends the sensual and the sexual to have near-metaphysical encounters with the self.

The murky episode of the botched Voice of America agreement reveals not only the nature of decision-making in a feudal set-up in a democratic governme

Contracted farming essentially produces an unequal system where the risks are left with farmers while control over production and marketing is acquire

The book tells the story of a 150-year-old garden in land-starved Mumbai through a smorgasbord of essays and attractive photographs.

Justice P. Sathasivam, the 40th Chief Justice of India, is seen as an interactive and responsive judge.

A Dalit writer’s book about his caste group in Tamil Nadu evokes as much sharp criticism as the State government’s ban on it.

The U.S. enters the Syrian quagmire by openly offering military support to rebel forces and keeping up the pressure on the Bashar al Assad government

As the United States revokes Edward Snowden’s passport and bullies other countries into refusing him asylum, to ordinary citizens around the world he

Veeraraghavan paints a detailed portrait of the life of workers in colonial Madras in the inter-War years and places labour history in the broader con

The Taliban masquerades as a government in waiting even as the U.S. is more than willing to enter into a negotiated settlement with the very force it

The Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition sees a role for the private sector and complementary food in nutrition-specific interventions, but

Unregulated contract farming, combined with the state actors’ tendency to renege on their responsibilities, can aggravate the agrarian crisis.

Compounding the fury of nature in Uttarakhand was the total inability of the state machinery to comprehend or deal with the disaster. The State, locat

A year after Mohamed Morsy was elected President, protests seeking a premature end to his tenure rock Egypt. It is about rewriting the rules of the re

Interview with Tanya Kerssen, research coordinator of Food First, Oakland, California.

The world has become less peaceful than in 2008, says the 2013 Global Peace Index.