Only participatory technology is appropriate

Needed: institutions that deliver

Centre allots funds

Devolution is bankrupt

Now even the World Bank says money should flow to local bodies directly

Govt's share of spending on nutrition, public health reduces in the last four years

Even the outstanding liabilities of states have been growing at double digits

Development dilemmas

Tamil catamarans go plastic

A new kind of fishing raft is replacing the traditional ones along the Madras coast

Standing up for water

Project pipedream

Shifty?

The World Bank's new strategy for India?

Timely, but incoherent

A travesty of justice

The new rehabilitation policy for project displaced persons is official jargon mongering

India, and not Bharat

Why the mainstream media prefers the former, and not the farmer

Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply

Women can save time to find avenues of additional income 

Why Dashrath Manjhi’s feat should be celebrated more than Pichai’s and Nadella’s

A cynical comparison between two unequal worlds

New initiative

Sign language

Video>>Report>>

Listen and learn

Setting an example

Yet another attempt

Book notice: Hope in sight

Improving People's Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia, edited by Mukul Sharma

My village, their plan

CII to develop rural business hubs; villages clueless

Promoting integrated village planning

Self-sustaining rural communities could be India's answer to her disrupted ecosystem.

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Power cut

Maharashtra's decentralisation plan gets derailed even before it can take off