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 …

Why the move to foist a GI tag on Mandu’s baobab tree is a no-brainer

Commerce ministry’s drive to push up the Geographical Indications tally is a lazy exercise that does not benefit local communities

Everyone loves an overflowing dam

Even as the government raced to fill up the reservoir of the Sardar Sarovar Dam by September 15 (one-and-a-half months ahead of the schedule as …

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 curious case of missing children at anganwadis

The names of malnourished children are missing from the registers at several anganwadis in Madhya Pradesh

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

The 'Right to recall'

Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two …

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

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

State proposal faces axe

COAL TROUBLE