"Police firing will keep happening"

BABULAL MARANDI was the Union minister of state for environment when he took over as the chief minister of Jharkhand in 2000. In March 2003, he …

"I will get the Koel-Karo project reviewed"

ARJUN MUNDA, the newly sworn in chief minister of Jharkhand, spoke to Down To Earth the day he announced his cabinet

INEVITABLE TRAGEDY

SOPAN JOSHI travels through Andhra Pradesh, only to find that beyond the immediate crisis of state-wide farmers' suicide lies one decade of …

In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

COVID-19, war and hunger: Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is becoming worse

Over 10 million are on the brink of famine; as many as 400,000 children are at the risk of dying, according to UN  

George Floyd killing is time to say it again: Racism has no place in science

A single mutation in a gene called ‘SLC24A5’ is responsible for giving Europeans their light skin

Strangers in their own land

The final notification of the Great Himalayan National Park has jeopardised the livelihood of a tribe of migratory pastoralists. It has also …

Starvation, disease: Tribes of Lower Omo bear the brunt of development projects

Oakland Institute report looks into condition of Ethiopian Indigenous communities displaced for dams, sugarcane plantations

As for the future

Is there hope?

Andhra pradesh

TAC betrays tribals at some tribal leaders' instance

Koel-Karo: Jharkhand

Leaders renege, but tribal collectivism holds forth

Singhbhum: Jharkhand

Jungle andolan amidst state repression

Thai government fails to tackle lead pollution in Klity Creek

Government ignores apex court order to clean up creek, one of the worst sites of industrial pollution in Thailand

Yale guide to fighting drug patent barriers

How human rights can be used to challenge oppressive intellectual property laws

Classification under SC, ST categories: Recognition needs to go beyond govern-analytics

Bill extending ST status to several communities raises questions regarding the category and its applicability in contemporary times

Demand for SIT probe into Centre's child nutrition scheme

Supreme Court commissioners report multi-crore scam involving private contractors and bureaucrats in food distribution under Integrated Child …

India

Psycho doctors’ role in CIA torture of detainees

The torture techniques designed and administered by the two psychologists hired by CIA were not only illegal, they might not have produced …

Have India's tribal leaders failed their people?

India has the largest tribal population in the world. But they are also the most marginalised section of society. What is it in India's political …

Great Man's distortion

How we came to fear saturated fat

When McDonald’s ate crow

The UK’s longest case was a PR disaster for the fast food giant

‘There could be a racist backlash to the current anti-racism movements’

Race science has been used to justify colonial occupation, slavery, genocide; it became so ingrained that we still live with its devastating …

Relief given at last to Kerala’s endosulfan victims

Package includes committee to examine need for tribunal to provide compensation; excluded victims, kin and caregivers to benefit

Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh

A team from the commission will visit the spot to ascertain facts

Rules and renegades

Pesticide regulations in India are lax. The industry has exploited the loopholes to corrupt the system. And the government has turned a blind eye …