Pick and choose

Policy-makers, don't run scared

Let green taxes finance your employment guarantee scheme

Another ornamental scheme

The proposed National Rural Employment Guarantee Act threatens to become just that

A government in denial

Cannot wish ecological poverty away

Twice shy?

Unions greet labour ministry's plans sceptically

We create jobs-for the US

Modi government still has no clear strategy for creating employment for the hordes of the jobless young in India

Death by starvation

About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.

HOME AT LAST

After more than 30 years of struggle, the Inuit people of Canada are given more autonomy and the right to self-determination

Fighting it out

Groups of tribal women in Orissa are fighting against authorities to improve their lot by consolidating the trade of minor forest produce

Kalam's kaleidoscpoe

Intellectualising poverty

No headlines, no rehabilitation

Oustees of the Kutku and Auranga dams in Bihar complain media attention is the only way of getting justice from the government, but the media …

Balangir's distressed migrants

From a resource-rich area to a metaphor for poverty, the Balangir district of Orissa has covered a long distance. Plausibly, it is this journey …

A reminder to Vasundhara Raje

Why employment has to be guaranteed through an Act, not a scheme

Burdensome load

Laid-off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal

Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty

The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …

Business on pedals

Making sense of `Make in India'

Manufacturing needs to get a boost. But what to manufacture and how are two critical questions

MALAR miracle

From literacy to economic independence

The unskilled Venkataswamy

Caste discrimination at work place, says ILO report

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Job growth statistics conceal agrarian crisis

NREGA activists who paid with their lives Narayan Hareka (Orissa)

Uttaranchal tea estates bane for farmers