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A private tuition session in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The practice is now so widespread that not going for private tuition is seen as something abnormal.-G. MOORTHY

Tuition culture

ONE of the more remarkable features of our education system is the way it has allowed and even encouraged the proliferation of private tuition outside

Banker`s perspective

THERE is no doubt that the financial sector in India was generally much less affected by the global financial crisis of the past year when compared wi

Measuring progress

FOR some time now it has been clear that standard measurements of growth and development are inadequate and possibly even misleading. The problem of l

Workers pile up cotton in Boromo in central Burkina Faso. A file photograph. U.S. cotton subsidies in 2001 were estimated to be more than the entire GDP of Burkina Faso, where more than two million people depend on cotton production and over half of the cotton farmers live below the poverty line.-ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP

Brazils victory

AN interesting drama has just played out in Geneva, with potentially significant implications for the ongoing Doha Round trade negotiations. A judgmen

On a summer day in Hyderabad. Safe drinking water is no longer considered something that must be provided by the civic authorities. While the rich buy bottled water or install water filters in their homes, the poor have no such means.-NAGARA GOPAL

Publicness of health

IT should come as no surprise that we are an unhealthy society. There are typically three variables that directly affect general conditions of health

At an outlet of the public distribution system in Erode, Tamil Nadu. States such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have defined BPL in such an inclusive way that the vast majority of the population is included, which makes their food distribution schemes near-universal.-M. GOVARTHAN

Food for all

IT is not surprising that questions of food security and the right to food have become such urgent political issues in India today. The rapid growth o

At a construction site in Gurgaon, some 40 km from New Delhi. The Delhi Human Development Report of 2006 suggested that there were around two to three lakh construction workers in Delhi, but current estimates suggest anywhere between eight and 10 lakh workers.-MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP

In the name of the Games

INDIA is not a society known for its concern for the conditions of its workers. Most of the men and women whose toil ensures our much-touted economic

Students of a Corporation school in Madurai fetching water to clean their classrooms when the school reopened after the vacation. A file photograph. Funds are not allocated to ensure that all children get the kind of education the children of our policymakers receive.-S. JAMES

Services for all

IN India we are used to living with contrasts. We were earlier used to the jet set and bullock cart set coexisting; now we are used to being seen as t

Franz Schubert, an 1875 oil painting by Wilhelm August Rieder.-

The music of life

THE Viennese composer Franz Schubert died young, in 1828. He was only 31 years old then and had been suffering from syphilis (which had plagued him co

Immigrant workers from Peru demonstrate in Tokyo on May 24 against the Japanese governments Bill to revise an immigration law.-KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

Migration crisis

WHEN the global financial and economic crisis broke in the latter part of 2008, observers were quick to point out that all the elements of global inte

The Danube in Budapest. The book by Claudio Magris is structured as a journey, beginning with the rivers origins and meandering along its course through central and south-eastern Europe to the Black Sea.-THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

Down the Danube

RIVERS are all about life. Not only because they provide life-giving water to people and plants and animals but because they become the flowing reposi

Harvesting paddy at Top Sengattupatti on Pachamalai in Tiruchi district. More than two-thirds of the rural population depends on cultivation for its basic livelihood.-M. MOORTHY

Farmers fury

IT is possible to say that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government and several other State governments that were elected in 2004 came into

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