The law on diplomatic practice and behaviour remains uncertain and uncodified; practice abounds in contradictions.

The house that was her home in Kolkata was for decades practically unnoticed by the public.

Interview with Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch.

The killing of innocent civilians in fake encounters and branding them as foreign mercenaries has been going on in Jammu and Kashmir for close to 27 y

Interview with Parvez Alam, lawyer of the Bhopal accused.

Gujarat’s notoriety for encounter deaths is traced to the period following the 2002 pogrom. Between 2002 and 2006, the police-politician nexus and ext

The Central Bureau of Investigation’s reports pin the 2011 violence in Dantewada on the police and other security forces.

Uganda’s success in containing the Zika outbreak is the product of a long history of cutting-edge infectious disease research that resulted in the dis

The ritual and random killing of cattle for food and sacrifice continued long after the Vedic period, possibly up to the Mauryan period, but by the la

An authoritative book on insect lives covering a wide range of creatures, some familiar and many unfamiliar.

A searing look at the pervasive role of middlemen in the financial dealings of the country and the nexus between industrialists and politicians.

The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party are trying to reach an electoral understanding with Navjot Singh Sidhu’s Awaaz-e-Punjab, but the former BJP MP is

The official narrative around the “encounter killing” of eight SIMI members in Bhopal throws up more questions than answers and the State’s credibilit

The new President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is seen to be moving close to China and appears willing to reverse the military alliance with t

The killing of 30 Maoists, including some senior leaders, at Malkangiri in Odisha in late October is one of the deadliest encounters involving the Com

Reading Vibhuti Narain Rai’s Hashimpura 22 May is a nerve-racking experience, but it is a book everyone should read to know how the state denied justi

The Narendra Modi government’s new Citizenship Bill, which seeks to enable non-Muslim minority groups from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan to acq

The emergence of the “Akhilesh factor” in the political space in Uttar Pradesh and the surge in the 43-year-old Chief Minister’s stock within the Sama

A visit to Kodagahalli, made famous as Rampura by the social anthropologist M.N. Srinivas in his book The Remembered Village, shows how caste relation

The crisis in the Tata group is not just a boardroom battle between Ratan Tata and Cyrus Mistry. It is a conflict between two ideas of doing business,

From Madhya Pradesh to Delhi to Jharkhand to Chhattisgarh, agencies of the BJP governments have literally been on the rampage. The fake encounters, t

With the Barack Obama administration keen on retaining a military presence in Afghanistan in the form of permanent military bases, it will be difficul

Native Americans protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multibillion venture by a corporation to carry crude and natural gas acr

NCRB data and other reports indicate how the most marginalised sections are also the most criminalised.

The Bhopal “encounter” and its aftermath raise the question whether the Madhya Pradesh government is aware of the Supreme Court guidelines to be follo

The Jharkhand government has promulgated two ordinances to bypass the tribal people’s rights over their land and resources which are guaranteed by the

President Yameen is unlikely to mend his undemocratic ways as long as he enjoys the tacit or active support of India and China.

The ownership structure of the Tata group is such that whoever controls the many trusts run by the group controls the business empire.

Arunachal Pradesh has nearly 60 per cent of its area under forest cover.