भारत क्यों है गरीब-4: घोर गरीबी से बाहर नहीं निकल पा रहे हैं लोग

भारत के कई इलाकों में गरीबी चिरस्थायी होती जा रही है। गरीबी उन्मूलन कार्यक्रमों के बावजूद इन इलाकों में गरीबी कम होने के बजाय ...

Expect budget to be rural-centric, focus on delivery to beneficiaries

PM Modi has already launched a major water conservation campaign, put the focus of his second tenure on revival of the agrarian economy

1000000 species under extinction. Blame humans

The Global Ecosystem Assessment by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows the current rate and …

How India is killing the country’s largest economy of the poor

New restriction on cattle slaughter will severely cripple the livestock economy which is bigger than crop economy; poor farmers shifted to …

A Mea Culpa budget

The budget is expected to have all the elements that will empower the government to say, ‘We are pro-poor’

Civil v political

Arguably, this is the hottest political summer for Delhi. Reason: friction between anti-corruption activists and the Union government over the …

Women and a nervous regime

Emboldened by SHG movement, reservation in panchayats, women emerge as key constituency

World Bank gets jittery

As bank gears up for competition, it may further dilute environmental safeguard policies

Grim reality of India's poverty dip

Brazilian lessons for Modi

Dilma Rousseff's re-election as president is a lesson on facing development challenges in an unequal economy

Drought and livestock

The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

Is the rural economy driving India’s recovery?

Government spending has led to demand growth in rural areas; but what if it comes down?

भारत को फिर से बुलंद करना होगा गरीबी हटाओ का नारा

केवल गरीबी रेखा से नीचे रह रहे लोगों के लिए गरीबी उन्मूलन कार्यक्रम चलाने से कुछ नहीं होगा, सभी गरीबों के लिए व्यापक कार्यक्रम ...

बर्फ कम, ज्यादा बारिश, बदल रहा है आर्कटिक का मौसम

इंसानों के कारण हो रहे जलवायु परिवर्तन का असर देखना हो तो उत्तरी ध्रुव के आर्कटिक के मौसम पर नजर डालिए

The untouchables: COVID-19 lockdown and the migrants

Social-distancing on the one hand and slipping back to age-old social discrimination on the other hand can break backs 

'Sir… if we define forests, it could create many loopholes'

Union forest ministry’s reply to parliamentary committee’s query on absence of a clear definition of forests  

Himalayan meltdown: Hindu Kush Himalayan region warming faster than global average

Capping global warming at 1.5°C will still mean a higher rate for the region through this century

How to fight water scarcity this monsoon

Though the monsoon is behaving erratically, drought-prone districts are still water rich

It is not a drought

As they say, drought is a disaster one can see coming. Deficit monsoon creates situations for a drought. But it is not deficit monsoon, rather …

When people participate in a government initiative

Delhi's fight against air pollution is an example of how citizens' participation can be solicited

ADB officials quit protesting policies

Where’s Bhoodan Land?

In defence of capitalism

Diluting MGNREGA does not make market sense

A fluid right

Campaign to make water and sanitation a right gathers momentum