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Growing number of vacant positions at Information Commissions threaten RTI Act

The transparency law faces an existential crisis due to a shortage of commissioners, regressive amendments, and a lack of political support.
Ashutosh Sharma
Public Health

India’s Air-pocalypse: Understanding the air pollution crisis in Delhi and beyond

A toxic spectre is haunting the nation. How shall we tackle it?
TEAM FRONTLINE
Queer Rights

Amidst disappointment, there is a glimmer of hope in Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage verdict

The ruling has opened a path for potential progress in LGBTQIA+ rights.
Bastian Steuwer
Photo Essay

The 3G teacher of Namo Jamdoba

In Deepnarayan Nayak’s free school for underprivileged children in West Bengal’s Namo Jamdoba, mud walls serve as blackboards and roads as classrooms.
Sudip Maiti
Supriyo vs Union of India

Supreme Court’s LGBTQIA+ rights verdict ignites debate on justice and equality

The debate centres on whether the judiciary should enter the legislative sphere to ensure equality and rights.
Arvind Narrain

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A patient recovering from surgery to remove a fungal infection associated with mucormycosis (known as “black fungus”) is tended to by a relative in a ward at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Jaipur in June 2021.

Explained: Why are more people getting ‘invasive’ fungal infections?

Modern medical technology has saved millions of lives—and led to invasive fungal infections.
Deutsche Welle
An LGBTQ+ rights activist leaves the premises of the Supreme Court after the verdict on same-sex marriages by the apex court in New Delhi on October 17, 2023.

In the Supreme Court of Erewhon: The unseen sixth judge renders his verdict in Supriyo v Union of India

“Without equality and fraternity, we are a lost tribe.”
Sriram Panchu
M.S. Swaminathan is known as the “Father of the Green Revolution in India” for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice in the country.

M.S. Swaminathan (1925-2023): The Rice man of India

Despite his share of controversies, the father of the Green Revolution was responsible for averting a mass famine in the newly independent India.
Devinder Sharma
Scientist Swati Nayak, recipient of the World Food Prize Foundation’s Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, 2023.

‘Culture plays a vital role in cultivation’: Swati Nayak

The scientist and Norman E. Borlaug Award recipient discusses climate change, high-yielding seed varieties, landraces, and more.
Aishwarya Mohanty
Priests conduct a yagna to propitiate the rain gods at the Ramanathaswamy temple, Rameswaram, in 2019. 

Conflating Hinduism with Vedic religion is a dangerous distortion 

It will wipe out internal debate and reformist tendencies within the tradition.
B. Jeyamohan
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