Mahatma Gandhi, public policy and COVID-19
The Gandhian talisman is important more than ever now in the times of pandemic to steer public policy for those who need it the most
COVID-19: PM Modi announces 21-day complete lockdown
Union government initiates procurement of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers, bans export
No end to discrimination against Punjab’s Dalit women labourers, says study
A recent study examined 927 Dalit women labour households across four districts. A lot of them reeled under debt, faced sexual harassment
Tribal women in Odisha attempt mass suicide over rail track construction
The women alleged the track was being constructed without compensating tribals in the area for their land
Yes, I buried my mother in front of my house
A social activist travels to eastern Uttar Pradesh to meet a marginalised community who bury their dead in their front yards because of caste stigma
BJP lost Jharkhand due to tribal anger: Experts
The Raghubar Das government's efforts to grab tribal land to give to industry alienated the community, they said
LPG connections not only success metric: CAG on Ujjwala
Scheme can't be a success without transition to clean fuel through sustained LPG use, auditor says
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 8, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 7, 2019)
ODF India: Is a critical government survey on toilet access, use being withheld?
According to high-level government sources, the survey results contradict the government’s open-defecation free status claim
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 13, 2019)
Is child protection a priority in the public budget?
Well-designed interventions for prevention, protection, response & rehabilitation can help India reach the ideal of a comprehensive …
Is America redeeming itself vis-à-vis its First Nations?
The country appointed its first Native American poet laureate and apologised for the genocide of aborigines in its largest and richest state on …
Safeguarding women after disasters: some progress, but not enough
Sexual exploitation must be recognised as a real and widespread problem. There must be staff and management accountability.
To catch a Delhi bus
Read a daily commuter’s hilarious (and serious) take on how millions like her struggle to access the commonest mode of transport in India&…
'Capital lies with a few, power with the masses'
Only one of the 350 newspapers started as a cooperative venture after Independence survived government's attempts to shut them down. The newspeper'…
On the world’s largest and longest UBI experiment
The experiment is ongoing in 'sequestered' 200 villages in Kenya for the next eight years and India has some lessons as it plans for a similar scheme
Dubai Declaration adopted to measure progress of SDGs
Launched at the UN World Data forum, it details measures to boost funds for data and statistical analysis for monitoring progress towards …
Unequal India:101 billionaires thrive; 364 million poor struggle to survive
About 27.5 per cent of India’s population is multidimensionally poor and 8.6 per cent of the country’s people live in extreme poverty
Odisha govt lures industries via land banks, alienates people from commons
Down To Earth travels to some of the areas in Odisha worst hit by a government-sponsored land grab to lure industries and investments
How Uttar Pradesh can avoid patchy implementation of plastic ban
Uttar Pradesh, which generates over 130,000 tonnes of plastic waste annually, needs to take early measures to facilitate the transition
Righting old wrongs
On the third Sampurna Vimukti Diwas, to mark Mahasweta Devi's birth anniversary, we reproduce this blog on Constitutional protection to Nomadic, …
Karnataka elections: do social welfare schemes ensure electoral victory?
In the last few years, several governments, which were relying on social welfare schemes for electoral win, were defeated. Ashok Gehlot’s …
No remedy is too small or trivial for the caste system
Studying the cognitive impact of discrimination suffered by minorities can provide inputs in policymaking to help minorities process their …
No toilet, no food; is this how India will become ODF?
Kiran Bedi's order, suspending free rice distribution scheme for Puducherry's poorest families from end of May unless they produce a certificate …
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