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Dispatches

Popular bhajan singer Narendra Chanchal dies at the age of 80

Parliamentary committee arrives in Kashmir to “build confidence”

More militiants killed in Jammu & Kashmir in 2020 than in previous two years points to an uptick in militancy and recruitment

Five persons dead in fire at Serum Institute in Pune, COVID vaccine production unaffected

Mumbai, Bengaluru and New Delhi among world’s worst for traffic congestion in 2020: report

Editors Guild and DIGIPUB condemn arrest warrant against senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

In tenth round of talks, farmers reject committee on MSP, to discuss government proposal to suspend controversial laws before both sides meet again on January 22

Congress, Left and other opposition parties in Assam form anti-BJP grand alliance for Assembly election

Waste to wealth: Odisha’s ‘Mo Khata’ outlets selling organic compost turn popular

U.N. migration report 2020: 18 million Indians living outside their homeland; women now comprise nearly half of all international migrants

Social Issues

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Caste violence

Night of terror

ILANGOVAN RAJASEKARAN

In a Tamil Nadu village, Dalits flee certain death after a mob from the dominant caste ...

Controversy

The Santhara debate

The Rajasthan High Court’s judgment criminalising the practice of Santhara by followers of ...

‘Others’ and others

THE “Others” column has long had a notorious history. In 2001, the District Crime Records ...

Farm suicides

The slaughter of suicide data

P. SAINATH

Changing the way you count changes the count.

Social issues

In cold blood

ILANGOVAN RAJASEKARAN

The uneasy calm in the western region of Tamil Nadu that followed the protests against ...

Public health

Grim picture

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI

A survey conducted by the Women and Child Development Ministry and UNICEF in 28 States and ...

Interview

‘He should have realised his birth-based limitations’

ILANGOVAN RAJASEKARAN

Interview with K. Gopal Ramesh of the Kongunadu Jananayaga Katchi.

State of Dalits

Dalit nation

RAMESH CHAKRAPANI

The findings of Census 2011 provide remarkable insight into the lives of Dalits across the ...

Bonded labour

New slave trade

The recent rescue of bonded workers from a Karnataka factory exposes the mutating form of ...

Issues in Focus

Left high and dry

The dependents of the victims of the Hashimpura massacre have been further disadvantaged ...

Maharashtra’s poor record

Lyla Bavadam

Interview with Anand Teltumbde, writer and civil rights activist.

Rajasthan

Murder for land

T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Nagaur

In a land dispute that turned into caste violence, five members of a Dalit family are ...

Maharashtra

Ringing with hate

Lyla Bavadam

Crimes against Dalits are on the rise in Maharashtra. Among the root causes are ...

Reservation

Flawed reading

V. VENKATESAN

The Supreme Court misinterprets “historic injustice” while denying the benefits of ...

Public Health

Driven to distress

Kerala is facing a situation where health care costs are leading more and more people, not ...

Vector-borne disease

Ailing research

Vector-borne disease research in India has remained stagnant for decades owing to ...

Judiciary

A case against the death penalty

September 7, 2012 WITHIN a few weeks of Pranab Mukherjee assuming office as the 13th ...

October 25, 1991

Beyond Mandal

BETWEEN legislative approval and executive assent, the Mandal Commission recommendations ...

December 1, 2006

Dalit blood on village square

The story reprinted below recounts what happened to a Dalit family at Khairlanji, a ...

Social Issues

Prisoners of social bias

The need to rationalise and bring order to the Daedalian social and cultural structure of ...

January 4, 2008

Woman as victim

The recently released annual Global Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum (WEF) ...

September 22, 2006

India’s shame

“SHAMEFUL”, “degrading”, “dehumanising”, “disgusting”, “obnoxious”, “abhorrent”, a “blot ...

August 28, 2009

In the name of honour

IT is not very difficult to locate Dharana village in Jhajjar district of Haryana. The ...

Social Justice

A case for caste census

As the Supreme Court has ruled that conducting a caste-based census is against the law, ...

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Columns

Investor exuberance amidst real economy recession

Even while the real economy remains in contractionary mode, not only have stock market returns exploded but India’s stock of foreign exchange reserves registered record-breaking increases in the April-September 2020 period mainly because expenditure, rather unusually, fell short of receipts in the current account.

Slideshow

The elusive western tragopan of the Himalaya

Braving the cold and hostile terrain of the Himalayan heights, determined birders go in search of the colourful and ground-dwelling western tragopan, ...
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Social and Gender issuesDiscrimination against elected Dalit panchayat presidents reveals entrenched caste-based hate and bias
ReservationPolitics in Dalit quota
ReportsThe crisis of poverty and migration in the SAARC region
Gender IssuesWhen to wed: Raising the minimum age of marriage
ReservationFor equity within castes
Dalit LandlessnessThe importance of giving land to Dalits
Interview: Martin MacwanOf Dalit awakening, upper-caste jealousy
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Gender‘Hijra has become a political identity’
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October 25, 1991Beyond Mandal
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Justice for workers
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