Managing Editor, Down To Earth. He has been associated with the fortnightly since 1997 and has written extensively on rural affairs and development matters
Free from poverty line
Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line
Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions
Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state
Cabinet approves new mining bill
Share prices of metal and coal companies nosedive
Inheritance of loss
Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor
GDP ignores cost to the environment
Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?
Supreme Court says no to increasing Tehri reservoir level
Negates its earlier order that gave temporary permission to do so
No mining by PSUs for trade in Scheduled Areas: tribal affairs minister
'Forest department is worst enemy of Forest Rights Act'
Planning Commission to SC: Rs 26 a person a day the 'adequate' poverty line
This has been arrived at by applying the price level in June 2011
Why Hirakud dam failed to check flood
The river has strayed from its flood control route
The swing
More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas
Good Lord! No trees
Wood used in Jagannath’s chariot vanishing fast from Odisha’s jungles
POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest
Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha
Poverty begets poverty
A 30-year survey of the poor gives a wake-up call
Japan's nuclear crisis, a warning for India
Sea water being used for the first time to cool the nuclear reactor
Farmers quit mentha
Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming