Four-wheelers whiz past
To collect and convert
Every drop of sweat
Into cash and profit.
– Ramesh Dutt Dubey in Teji aur paisa
Words change their meanings over time. Malls once
The statistics are chilling. Over a span of 12 years – from 1997 to 2008 – almost two lakh farmers in India committed suicide. Equally well documented are the links between these
Mention the Indian Northeast and, for most, some searing images immediately come to mind. One of those, perhaps, is of a group of nude women protestors in front of the
Running into problems of supply even as the military establishment begins to import drone technology, India is working full speed to develop its own line of unmanned aerial vehicles.
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As the day of reckoning on the Ayodhya dispute draws near, Sangh Parivar organisations have again begun chanting slogans for a Ram temple on the site, despite the fact that
Nearly six years ago now, I travelled through Tamil Nadu immediately after the tsunami of 2004. There was tragedy and reconstruction, the spirit of volunteers and the often haphazard nature
On the evening of 3 March 2009, International Sex Worker Rights Day, over 3000 children of sex workers between the ages of six and 25 marched through College Street in
Regional geopolitics as well as the global 'war on terror' have come together to ensure that the suffering of tens of millions in Pakistan is not generating the
The change that India’s national scheme for rural employment guarantee, touching the lives or more than 100 million people, has accomplished is hard to fathom.
