Watered down: Almost half of India’s rivers still remain polluted; here is why
India has mostly focussed on cleaning only major rivers; most states have recently started reviving their small rivers, but the progress remains …
What is in a name: Should cheetahs arriving in India be given names?
It may appear a trivial issue but there is a serious ethical and scientific debate underlying this proposition
COVID-19: Poor hit as ration shops run out of grains in Chitrakoot
Several ration shops in MP, UP haven’t had wheat for weeks, claim residents
Blazing India: Summer disrupts life in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone
Farmers, daily wagers and vendors suffer even as many rush to hospital with heat-related illnesses
The logic of mass tree plantations
Such plantations can succeed in India only if farmers are given proper incentive and protection to grow them
Our politicians’ tryst with superstition
The world’ biggest functioning democracy has its politicians busy with auspicious days and places for important decisions and events
Are political parties looking at women differently?
In India, perhaps for the first time, election manifestoes have been made keeping women in mind. The upcoming elections in Madhya Pradesh and …
The rulers nouveaux
Madhya Pradesh took a head-start in implementing the 3-tier panchayati raj. But lack of finances might just undo the transfer of power to the people
Exhaustive study of Munda tribal society
THE MUNDA OF CENTRAL INDIA - AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR SOCIAL ORGANIZATION Robert Parkin Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price not stated
Windowdressing forestry
Applause and international funding of a forestry project greenwashes the cruel realities of the people living there
Educating the underprivileged
A review of our educational and training policy is desperately needed to educate tribals, the backward classes and the poor
Learning made easy
The Education Guarantee Scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government is a new approach to encouraging rural children to attend school. And the scheme …
Dam travails
The Supreme Court's order to increase the height of the Narmada dam comes in for criticism. Madhya Pradesh decides to file a petition
A water harvest
Catch rain where it falls. No one knew it better than the people living in Mandu, a hill-fort town in Madhya Pradesh, 1,400 years ago
Lakhs out of lac
A village in Madhya Pradesh prospers by reverting to its traditional means of livelihood
Engulfed by the ravines
Once a throbbing rural business centre, Birahrua, in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, is now haunted by devilish gullies
In spate
Narmada dam row rages
Unseasonal rains, hailstorms catch Rajasthan and MP unawares
Standing chickpea and garlic crops damaged
The contours of repression
The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project
Rising against liquor
Mammoth problem
Survivors' hopes rise
The cup that kills
Effluents leaked from a brewery in Madhya Pradesh wrecks health havoc
Rights infringed
Down with the reservoir