The squalid history of medical patents

Bringing medicines into the global intellectual property regime was a triumph of corporate skulduggery led by Pfizer

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 20, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Simply Put: Lost childhood

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 5, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Nomads and denotified tribes are the invisible people of India

Most Nomadic tribes were branded ‘born criminals’ during the British colonial rule; have remained on the margins of society since then

Simply Put: Hospitals under scanner

DTE Coverage of Delhi G20 Summit 2023

DTE delved into the environmental angle of the negotiations at Bharat Mandapam

Simply Put: A different kind of rocket

Simply Put: Women empowerment?

Simply Put: Heatwave in Bihar. Or not

The Global South is forging a new foreign policy in the face of war in Ukraine, China-US tensions: Active nonalignment

Russia has seen the new nonaligned movement as an opening to bolster its own position

A political mountain to climb: Why the Alps are such a commonly used metaphor in European thought

Fascists used the Alps as grounds on which to improve the health of the nation

Simply Put: World Press Freedom Day 2023

Simply Put: International Women’s Day

Women’s Day 2024: Flight of hope in Uttarakhand

Women pilot AIIMS Rishikesh’s initiative to use drones to carry medical supplies to remote health centres 

A group of daily wagers are on a fast-unto-death at -14°C in Leh; their voices should be heeded

The workers, in a challenging environment like Ladakh, have alleged inhumanity and discrimination employment regularisation; it’s a gross …

Simply Put: Processed foods

Simply Put: Eyes everywhere, ears closed

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 5, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Women’s Day 2024: ‘She’ is for Self Help Empowerment

In India, women self-help groups have been a source of empowerment, fostering economic independence, social stature & community resilience. …

More give than take in secret trade deals

The tight secrecy over trade negotiations means citizens are not privy to the deals that affect them directly

Nagorno-Karabakh brings back painful memories of 1915 for Armenians globally: Avedis Hadjian

Down To Earth speaks to author Avedis Hadjian about the humanitarian crisis in the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus

Lok Sabha passes Women’s Reservation Bill with two-thirds majority

Opposition leaders have flagged concerns about the timing of the bill’s passage as well as its eventual transition to the status of law

Sustainable tourism needs to be built with the help of locals

It is not about managing a destination, but a community with permanent residents and tourists, the latter being understood as temporary residents

There is a big discord between the past as it was and as it is constructed in the history of a nation: GN Devy

Down To Earth speaks to scholar, linguist and activist about his latest book on the ‘histories’ of Indians