Telangana Grinding to a haltKunal ShankarThe response to the Narendra Modi government’s sudden jolt to the country’s monetary policy ranged from adulation to shock.
Malkangiri encounter Malkangiri massacreKUNAL SHANKARThe killing of 30 Maoists, including some senior leaders, at Malkangiri in Odisha in late October is one of the deadliest encounters involving the Com
Social Issues Child rights and faithKUNAL SHANKARYet another Jain practice becomes controversial with the death of a child following a fast lasting 68 days.
Irrigation ‘Big reservoirs an outdated technology’KUNAL SHANKARInterview with T. Hanumanth Rao, expert on irrigation and water management.
Livelihood Issues A fight for their landKUNAL SHANKARThe mounting opposition to land acquisition for the Mallanasagar project, which threatens to submerge 14 villages, is turning out to be the first seri
Agriculture Lost varietyKUNAL SHANKARThe distress in cotton farming in Telangana and Maharashtra is the most telling example of the outcome of the Centre’s slow withdrawal of support fo
Labour Boom and bustKunal ShankarThere is growing uncertainty about job security in the I.T. sector; and the retrenchment of “non-performers” by TCS in Hyderabad has come as a gri
Judiciary Divided houseKUNAL SHANKARJudges in Telangana resort to the unprecedented act of public protest as they feel they have been short-changed by the process of allocation of judici
Social issues ‘I don’t want to bow down to higher castes anymore’KUNAL SHANKARInterview with Radhika Vemula and Raja Vemula, Rohith Vemula’s mother and brother, on life after Rohith and why social activism has become a drivin
Drought Telangana's thirstKUNAL SHANKARMany villages in the State are reeling under acute water scarcity. The government departments are trying to tap every available source to supply water
Interview: Appa Rao Podile, VC, HCU ‘Complaint won’t stand legal scrutiny’KUNAL SHANKARInterview with Appa Rao Podile, Vice Chancellor, Hyderabad Central University.
Controversy Caught in a trapKUNAL SHANKARThe sudden return of HCU Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile from long leave sparking violence and arrests on the campus shifts public attention away fro
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
