The national local elections
Bangladesh loses an opportunity to revive its most important local government—upazilla parishad—as competing national parties turn …
Centre-state collusion
Why political justice is ignored in countering Naxalism in Chhattisgarh
English distress
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Battle over paper
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Brazilian lessons for Modi
Dilma Rousseff's re-election as president is a lesson on facing development challenges in an unequal economy
Millionaire mukhiyas
Money pumped in development schemes in Bihar is giving rise to a new breed of village heads, flush with money and flexing muscles
Time to reveal
Cabinet clears policy that makes it mandatory for departments to share data; civil society sceptical
A deal for votes
2013-14 might see expansion or monetisation of development schemes in run-up to election
Confusion over RTI persists
Do PPP ventures come under RTI Act? Planning Commission says not its call
Blood, sweat and tears
For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life
Civil society & politics
Ready for guillotining?
The curious case of panchayats in Delhi
The Nagar Swaraj Bill will usher in decentralised governance in the city state, but what happened to rural panchayats?
People’s manifesto
Political parties reverse trend, seek people’s suggestions to draft manifesto
News Snippets
My god v your resource
Recent Supreme Court order in Vedanta case holds hope for tribal community life
Cooperative in spirit
Verghese Kurien, the man who made cooperatives an empowering business model
Who dropped MESA?
Government clueless about the Bill it introduced 12 years ago to govern urban areas in tribal regions. Constitutional crisis follows
‘Citizens must not just blame the government but criticise it’
Public policy expert Rajendra Pratap Gupta speaks about his new book
Andhra in a fix over quota
Cancels local body polls as court says reservation can’t exceed 50%
Streamlining autonomy
Panchayati raj ministry suggests amendments to local governance in north-eastern states
Bank’s first contest
Developing countries challenge US monopoly by putting up candidates for World Bank’s presidency
Agents of change
Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving
The swing
More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas
Machiavellian moves
Rajasthan's decision to bar illiterate people from contesting elections to panchayats is one more example of a state government dominating …