The Real India Story

Of pseudo-sangams and de-linking of rivers

How Madhya Pradesh government is exploiting religious sentiments to trump common sense in water management and project the chief minister as a …

The new banana republic

Financial inclusion: some suggestions

What the Modi government needs to achieve a 100 per cent success to provide every Indian access to formal financial services

Science jamboree at Jammu

Indian Science Congress showcases innovations for a smarter home

Exhibits include gas stove that can be timed to turn off; a clothesline that protects clothes from rain

Government's U turn on poverty line

Loneliness in the glitzy capital

Delhi’s city plan has dehumanised public spaces, inviting violence like the recent gangrape of a 23-year-old girl

ANNA TO BINAYAK AND TATA

The promise of Dayamani

Adivasi activists, however successful in mobilising grassroots struggles, have seldom been able to make a dent in Parliament. Will Dayamani Barla …

Bill Gates, Grand Challenges and Indian Science Congress

The Bill Gates Foundation has invited Indian innovators to send in their ideas that could change the world. But India needs more solutions to its …

The battle for a strong Lokpal

As the showdown between Anna Hazare and the Centre begins what implications does it have for the relationship between the government and non-…

The battle for a strong Lokpal

As the  showdown between Anna Hazare and Centre begins what implications does it have for the relationship between the government and non-…

Tiger tour operators' incidental love: tribals

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava's take on tour operators' claim that tourism in core areas of reserves is good for tribals

A journey called change

Their struggle for survival and progress has shaped the understanding of environmentalism both at the national and global levels and influenced …

Tikait on SEZ and Indian farmer

Darkness lies ahead for the Indian Farmer, says Mahendra Singh Tikait, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader in this exclusive interview with Down to …

Mindless on ‘reform’

Reforms in India have become synonymous with opening up to foreign capital. Does it reform our corrupt polity or institutions?

Prime Minister’s Logic

It’s pouring money and schemes in agriculture

No dearth of funds for agri credit and new institutions

AAP rides on drug abuse issue in Punjab

Activists say Punjab may lose an entire generation to drug abuse

A lame duck Schedule of the Constitution

The true potential of the Fifth Schedule was diluted right at its conception

Political parties use rural health mission scam stick to beat Mayawati government

Bahujan Samaj Party leader defiant blames UPA for the mess

'First 100 days show NDA has no intention to work for the poor'

Report released by network of civil society groups expresses concern over policies damaging to the environment

Money, money everywhere; not a clean drop to drink

Experts lament the lack of scientific planning and direction for cleaning of rivers in budgets

Ban on construction work at Maheshwar dam lifted

This despite Jairam Ramesh himself accepted rehabilitation was slow