State apathy caused a differently abled teen to starve to death in Odisha

A member of a fact-finding team writes about how the 17-year-old and his sister struggled to make ends meet before they couldn’t

Concern for increasing population in India just a political rhetoric

India’s population will soon stabilise, but the government is just not noticing the facts

Video: Cabinet clears formation of National Medical Commission

The new commission’s responsibilities will include, approving and assessing medical colleges, conducting a common entrance for MBBS courses …

Crisis management

Jared Diamond’s latest book espouses that nations can come out of a crisis just the way people do

Doctors under attack: Govt, IMA must create safe work environment

After Kolkata, such an attack took place in Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital on July 7, 2019 and this too led to strikes

Goa’s first white paper on livelihood can help in effective state planning

Prepared by Goa Livelihoods Forum, the paper calls for the state to achieve development in the lines of the United Nation’s sustainable …

Language gap in policy making needs bridging

For active participation of tribal communities in policy dialogues, subaltern language are indispensable

Bill in Connecticut aims to stop sale of harmful cosmetics banned in EU

Many of the chemicals banned in the European Union are still used in the US in products ranging from toothpaste to shampoo and fruit juices to cheese

It's not just jobs, but good jobs that the unemployed need

People don’t just want jobs, but good ones that are stable, are in the formal-sector, have safe working conditions, collective bargaining …

Sedition: Anti-national abuse

Most developed countries have repealed sedition laws. But India continues with this colonial law, only to help the government suffocate dissent

The young, old and an unequal world

Younger, meaner, more self-indulgent, angry and insecure in a climate risked world. We don’t deserve this

Swachh Bharat Mission: other name for coercion and deprivation

What started as a campaign to make India open defecation free, has now taken shape of a cocercive policy of shaming people for not using toilets, …

Can technology support forest rights process?

As false claims under the Forest Rights Act raise alarms, villages in Gujarat show how communities can use technology to address them

Monumental mistake

An elected member of legislative assembly from Uttar Pradesh, BJP's Sangeet Som called Taj Mahal a "blot on Indian history" recently

Fast food MNCs indifferent towards eliminating antibiotic use in India; consumers unaware

None of the fast food companies that CSE surveyed has made any specific time-bound commitment to reduce or eliminate any kind of antibiotics

Warnings on encephalitis and floods unheeded

If more children die in August in Gorakhpur and floods occur every year during monsoon, then why are we not prepared?

The Behaviour Puzzle

Stigmatising the powerless is not the way to a cleaner India, but only a more ashamed India

These crucial exemptions

Exemptions given in drug patent protection are vital for research as the court ruled in the Natco versus Bayer case

Watch: "5-year-plan was a good method to measure growth"

The March 31, 2017 marks the end of the five-year-planning method. Former planning commission member B K Chaturvedi explains why India needs to …

Watch: Who will miss India's five-year-plans?

Former member of the planning commission N C Saxena explains what the end of five year planning means and if Niti Aayog can fill the gap

Making of the Indian Constitution: a simplified brief

On the occasion of 70 years of the Constituent Assembly of India, Down to Earth explains the incremental stages of formulation of the Constitution

Where is the Chandni of this Chowk?

Once known as the silver street and home of famous poet like Ghalib, Chandni Chowk is today a nightmare for motorists, residents, traders and …

Money for nothing

A global tax regulatory body to finance the SDGs could have rescued the international conference in Addis Ababa. But the culture of privilege …

Save internet from becoming like cable TV

Prabir Purkayastha, head of knowledge commons talks about net neutrality and why it is important to stop telecom operators from making it into a …

One year of Modi government: no more achhe din, claims citizen report

According to the authors, the document was prepared after consultations with stakeholders in 100 districts across India