Age and marriageT.K. RAJALAKSHMIA Delhi High Court order justifying the marriage of girls under 18 years could be used to defend child marriage, argues the AIDWA. It demands that the
All work and no payT.K. RAJALAKSHMIThe three-decade-old Integrated Child Development Scheme is being expanded to create more child-care centres, but anganwadi workers and helpers, who p
Farmers' triumphT.K. RAJALAKSHMIFarmers in Rajasthan win a significant victory as the State government agrees to stay the hike in power tariffs.
Fire of aggressionT.K. RAJALAKSHMIAn upper-caste mob, resentful of a Dalit community's relative prosperity, burns its homes following a murder in Haryana's Gohana subdivision.
Power of literacyT.K. RAJALAKSHMIThe National Literacy Mission has started a silent revolution in Haryana's Karnal district by empowering the weaker sections to seek equality and free
Legalising exploitationT.K. RAJALAKSHMIThe draft of a law on admissions to private institutions of professional education leaves private players free to function in the way they choose.
The undying Malthusian arithmeticT.K. RAJALAKSHMIFrom Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic by Mohan Rao; Sage Publications, New Delhi; pages 287.
Target, trade unionismT.K. RAJALAKSHMIThe attempt by the workers of the Gurgaon unit of Honda to form a trade union meets with stiff resistance from the management and repression from the
A law for the domestic domainT.K. RAJALAKSHMIThe Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Bill, 2005, to be introduced in Parliament soon, is comprehensive in its scope; it redefines domestic v
Fighting for ImranaT.K. RAJALAKSHMIThe case of Imrana, the woman who is punished by leaders of her community for being raped by her father-in-law, unites women's organisations in the ba
Child BRIDES OF INDIAASHA KRISHNAKUMAR T.K. RAJALAKSHMIChild marriage is widespread in India despite a law banning it, and the loser in the end is invariably the girl child given the socio-economic factors
Dying for waterT. K. RAJALAKSHMIThe police firing on farmers agitating in Tonk district, Rajasthan, for irrigation water draws attention to the fact that the State's ruling party has
The great Indian family A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
