Spotlight NCRB 2021 report: Dying young and jobless in IndiaDivya TrivediDaily wagers, the unemployed, and the self-employed accounted for the most deaths by suicide.
Northeastern India Proposal to lift prohibition in Manipur evokes ire of women activistsIboyaima Laithangbam
Movements Relentless crusadeS.G. VOMBATKEREThe Narmada Bachao Andolan started its work 30 years ago. Today, it is a moral force, and its most important contribution to India and the world is it
Communalism Plot to turn a mosque in North East Delhi into a temple foiled Ziya Us SalamThe Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind restores a mosque vandalised by communal elements during the February riots in North East Delhi and foils an attempt to turn i
Bihar Getting away with murderAJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA in Laxmanpur BatheShankarbighaSendaniThe acquittal of all the 26 accused in the 1997 massacre of Dalits in Laxmanpur Bathe village deepens the pessimism among agricultural workers in cent
Social and Gender issues Discrimination against elected Dalit panchayat presidents reveals entrenched caste-based hate and bias Ilangovan Rajasekaran The recent incidents of humiliation of Dalit women panchayat presidents in Tamil Nadu reveal the extent of caste-based hate, but social media has give
Crime Hasty cremation of Hathras gang-rape victim raises doubts about administration’s role Ziya Us SalamYet another violent rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh, barely 200 kilometres from the national capital, exposes the links between caste and violence ag
Reports The crisis of poverty and migration in the SAARC regionT.K. RajalakshmiA recent report published by the South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication discusses the extent of involuntary working-class migration in the SAARC
Reservation Politics in Dalit quota VIKHAR AHMED SAYEEDAlthough the A.J. Sadashiva Commission, in its report submitted in 2012, has recommended internal reservation within the 15 per cent Dalit quota in Ka
Education A question of equitable access to legal education Prannv Dhawan Devansh KaushikAs legal education becomes increasingly expensive, government intervention to support NLUs, increase scholarship grants and roll back fees is the need
The NLAT fiascoThe controversy emerged when NLSIU (National Law School of India University) Bengaluru made a surprise announcement on September 3 of its decision to
Communalism ‘The government does not listen to us’ Ziya Us SalamInterview with Zafarul-Islam Khan, former Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission.
Communalism Anti-CAA protesters: Victims twice overDivya TrivediEven as interrogations, arrests and charge-sheeting of anti-CAA protesters as instigators of the February riots in North East Delhi continue despite t
Communalism Insidious campaign seeking abrogation of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991Ziya Us SalamA group of Hindu sants has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking the abrogation of a legal provision preserving the status of each place of wo
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
