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Social Justice

Transforming Dalit lives

The Telangana government’s Dalit Bandhu scheme envisions the financial empowerment of Dalit families and hopes to nurture a spirit of entrepreneurship
Ravi Sharma
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Gyanvapi Controversy

CONTROVERSY | Is the Gyanvapi mosque case part of a push for something bigger?

While the moulding of the historically multireligious Varanasi’s image as a purely Hindu centre was a colonial scheme, pushing the Gyanvapi mosque cas
Divya Trivedi,Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Gyanvapi Mosque Case

Push comes to shove: Events leading up to Gyanvapi mosque survey raises questions

The events leading up to a local court’s order for a survey of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque premises are of a piece with the Sangh Parivar’s actions so
Purnima S. Tripathi
Gyanvapi Mosque Case

‘We are hopeful of a positive outcome’

Interview with Alok Kumar, international working president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
Divya Trivedi
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Gyanvapi Mosque Case

‘Shivling not mentioned in survey report’

Interview with S.M. Yaseen, Anjuman Intezamiya Masjid Managing Committee.
Divya Trivedi
Custodial death in Chennai

Spectre of brutality: Custodial death in Chennai shocks Tamil Nadu

The custodial death of a Dalit youth in Chennai again sparks outrage and highlights the urgent need to humanise the police force.
Ilangovan Rajasekaran
LIVELIHOOD ISSUES

Forced out of homes in Chhattisgarh, Adivasis now face second displacement from Telangana

A section of the tribal people who were forced to migrate out of their home State of Chhattisgarh face the prospect of another displacement with Telan
Divya Trivedi

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Officials  direct a student wearing the hijab before the commencement of the annual SSLC exams at a government school in Bengaluru on March 28.

Hijab verdict: Lifting the veil on essentiality

With so many sections of society approaching the judiciary for redress of grievances, the concept of essentiality of a religious practice will be put
Ziya Us Salam
A gig worker on her delivery round, in Kolkata, a file photograph.

Gig workers vulnerable to exploitation

Gig workers present the new face of employment in India, with no fixed working hours and no proper terms of employment to which the employer can be he
T.K. Rajalakshmi
Women working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the banks of Padianallur tank in Chennai, a file photograph. Women generated over 50 per cent of the persondays under the scheme in the current fiscal.

MGNREGA: Wake-up call

A Parliamentary Standing Committee pulls up the Rural Development Ministry in its report on a “critical evaluation” of the MGNREGA and calls for more
T.K. Rajalakshmi

Economic violence: Oxfam's latest report tears into inequality

The latest Oxfam report highlights how man-made inequality killed more people than COVID-19 did during the pandemic and suggests a redistribution of w
T.K. Rajalakshmi
At a protest  seeking implementation of 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in medical courses under the All India Quota,  in Tiruchi on August 17, 2020.

Milestone in social justice: Supreme Court verdict upholds OBC reservation in all-India medical seats quota

The Supreme Court’s historic verdict upholding OBC reservation in the all India quota of medical seats is a major achievement in the history of social
K. Veeramani
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