Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse
Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group
It will take 55 years to have one-third women representatives in Parliament
Despite women voting in record numbers, Parliament didn’t enact the Women’s Reservation Bill that promised to keep aside a third of …
Boss, the real beehive!
Rahul Gandhi’s idea of governance needs fresh focus. How about more autonomy to nearly 240,000 panchayats?
Floods cost India Rs 4.7 lakh crore in last 6 decades
At least 90% of the Assam’s districts are flooded and more than 50,000 people are in relief camps
Indira, Manmohan, Modi: Why all see civil society with suspicion
The arrests of activists and rights campaigners is set to further dip the relationship between government and the civil society
1.2 mn schemes meant to supply drinking water to all couldn’t do it
The latest CAG report says the country might not meet the SDG goal as well with its current schemes
Why political parties love schemes that benefit individual voters
Popular welfare schemes will be the focus of upcoming elections, but the unilateral focus to provide benefits to individual voter leads to less …
Point of No Agri-returns Part 7: India diverts 10 million hectares of productive agri-lands, replaces them with barren lands for cultivation
Government report terms this as the 'often overlooked' aspect of the agrarian crisis in the country
हंसी के पात्र भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी आंदोलन
लगातार दो शासन काल में जिस पैमाने पर जनता के पैसों की लूट हुई है, उसने भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी मुहिमों को असफल साबित कर दिया ...
Point of no agri-returns Part 1: How India lost its historic agriculture recovery growth phase in just four years
Government reports say 2004-14 had the highest agriculture growth that has fast slipped back to near-zero growth despite normal monsoons and …
युवाओं का व्यापक असंतोष क्या वैश्वीकरण का घड़ा फूटने का संकेत है?
दुनिया की युवा आबादी एक ऐसी मुक्त बाजार वाली दुनिया में पली-बढ़ी है, जहां उसने 'प्रतिबंधित अर्थव्यवस्था' नामक किसी चीज के अस्तित्व जाना ही नहीं है
असमानता की रिपोर्ट में फिर सामने आई एक और हकीकत
‘असमानता की रिपोर्ट’ की मानें तो देश में समृद्धि का पैसा गरीब आदमी तक रिसकर भी नहीं पहुंच रहा
Unusually long La Niña displaced record number of people in 2022
In India, disasters were mostly weather-related and displaced 2.5 million people in 2022, according to the Global Report on Internal Displacement
अमेरिका में पैठ जमा रही है गरीबी, क्या हैं मायने
पूंजीवादी व्यवस्था में श्रमिकों से ज्यादा हासिल करने और मालिक जितना संभव हो उतना कम देने की कोशिश में हैं
भारत क्यों है गरीब-3: समृद्ध प्राकृतिक संसाधनों के बीच रहने वाले ही गरीब
यह दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण है कि गरीबी उन्हीं इलाकों में ज्यादा है, जहां प्राकृतिक संपदा प्रचुर मात्रा में है। इन लोगों की क्षमता इतनी भी नहीं ...
Farmers stare at another loss despite good rains. They need a boost from govt
Indian farmers have accumulated huge debts due to crop damages and less remunerative price for produce
As Fani looms large, we should remember what a cyclone costs Odisha
Odisha, which is bracing up for the extremely severe cyclone that’s predicted to make landfall on May 3, faces two natural disasters every year
'Indian elections will always be unpredictable'
For 25 years, economist Ruchir Sharma has travelled the length and breadth of India analysing voting paterns, sociological landscapes and nuances …
Election Commission, NGT, environment ministry say no to plastics in 2019 poll campaigning
Efforts are on for the first time to reduce the use of non-degradable materials during the upcoming general elections
Why is Earth’s driest place flooding and snowing?
The Atacama Desert in Chile is witnessing rains like never before, including regions that never recorded rains in history
“नया भारत” कितना नया?
स्वतंत्रता की 75वीं वर्षगांठ मनाना गौरव की बात है लेकिन “नया भारत” बनाना लिखित संबोधन से कहीं बढ़कर है
आधा समय गुजरा, किसानों की आय दोगुना करने का लक्ष्य अब भी दूर की कौड़ी
इस दर से वर्ष 2022 तक किसानों की आय दोगुना करने के लक्ष्य को प्राप्त नहीं किया जा सकेगा। इसे हासिल करने में 25 ...
First lesson in governance for PM Modi: Legislative tapasya (penance) is all about listening to outer world, not inner self
Union government will repeal all 3 controversial farm laws, Modi declares on Gurupurab
पर्यावरण के क्षेत्र में बड़ी ताकत बन कर उभर रहा है चीन
नया ध्रुवीकरण साफ तौर पर पर्यावरण को अपनी सुविधानुसार इस्तेमाल करने की गलत नीतियों का परिणाम है
Making sense of `Make in India'
Manufacturing needs to get a boost. But what to manufacture and how are two critical questions