Let states decide

Time to reveal

Cabinet clears policy that makes it mandatory for departments to share data; civil society sceptical

Poor count

Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective

Ready for guillotining?

New mineral policy pushes privatization at people's cost

Kingfisher and Cronies

Losing light

Bachat Lamp Yojana flounders. Investors say faulty mechanism makes it a bad deal

Only plans, no integration

State inaction

The traditional forest dweller has had very few entitlements down centuries. Guardian of the forest, he has been regarded as encroacher by the …

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Contest for pesticide

Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament

Shameless India

The public relations republic

GM and the superhero

Kind to Cash

A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.    

Is this ‘legitimate rape’?

The official response to CAG’s report on captive coal mines fails to address serious issues on the loot of natural resources

Misplaced emphasis on security

The Salwa Judum judgement and the Union home ministry

Trouble in store

Farmer harmer

Move to leash NGOs

Government and political parties see NGOs with suspicion. Arm-twisting has already begun

Rise of third sector

NGOs’ relationship with the government has been redefined over the years with changing social and political scenario

Largesse too little

Wind is big

Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Value of deforestation?