NREGA activists who paid with their lives Lalit Mehta (Jharkhand)

Let states decide

Women strike back

India's first alliance of women affected by mining takes shape

Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

Weeds of fortune

Strings attached

Centre's purpose of reserving 50 per cent seats for women in panchayat elections defeated by puppet candidates

How women seized NREGA

In defence of capitalism

Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense

Prosperity and Beyond

A quarter of a century ago, a jeep driver decided it was time to make a change. Ralegan Siddhi, made into a model village by Anna Hazare, faces …

Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates

Bring back the social sector, but not interventionist planning

Spoils of local bodies

Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf

Will the budget create a bang?

The 2015-16 Union budget will declare Modi government's development agenda

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Lean, mean scheme

Budget to start process of reforming Central rural schemes, 45 years after first demand

Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

Charming no more

The saperas (snake-charmers) of Delhi loive in a unique colony called Mollarbandhgaon. This community, located next to the Badarpur thermal power …

Rivers Shankhini and Dankini in Chhattisgarh run dirty

Ghana's gold enriches MNCs, not its own people

Heads without tails

Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged

Olive Ridley preservation hits fishermen in Orissa

Shrimp does not pay

Jobs Jobs Jobs

The government is obsessed with economic growth. Employment is bound to follow, it claims. That's a delusion. The swelling numbers of unemployed …

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving