A diligent processT.K. RAJALAKSHMICENSUS work starts three years before the actual enumeration on the ground. What kind of data is to be collected is discussed by data users comprising
The real concernsT.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New DelhiThe controversy over the population growth rates only serves to deflect attention from serious issues such as the declining sex ratios.
A communal plotT.K. RAJALAKSHMI in UdaipurThe violence by tribal people against Muslims in Rajasthan, apparently at the instigation of Sangh Parivar organisations, stops short of developing in
Hard way to learnT.K. RAJALAKSHMIUnauthorised, ill-equipped private schools and the very poor infrastructure of many government schools together present a miserable picture of basic e
Growing concernsT.K. RAJALAKSHMIThe special population stabilisation programme envisaged in the Common Minimum Programme of the United Progressive Alliance government raises several
A brutal assaultT.K. RAJALAKSHMI in SeoniThe gang rape in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, a State that has one of the country's highest crime rates against Dalits, once again points to the
All for the cowT.K. RAJALAKSHMION JULY 10, a young man was done to death in full public view in a crowded weekly market of Barghat, about 20 km from Seoni. The incident went largely
BREATH OF DEATHT.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New DelhiSilicosis continues to be a major killer in certain areas of Delhi and its neighbourhood where workers of stone-crushing and quarrying units are explo
Slow to actT.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New DelhiAt a convention of Sahmat, historians voice the demand of secular-minded forces to undo the damage done to NCERT textbooks during the rule of the BJP-
A crucial interventionT.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New DelhiA two-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court orders the completion of construction of the portion of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal in Punjab and directs the
The TINA factor at workT.K. RAJALAKSHMITHE virtual dominance of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan did not come as a surprise. That the party had an edge was unquestionable as only fiv
A jolt to the BJPT.K. RAJALAKSHMIIT was believed that the Congress and the BJP would win an equal number of seats in Himachal Pradesh. But the picture that emerged was quite different
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.
