2009 was quite a tumultous year for India’s forests, coastal stretches and agricultural lands. With an average of 100 industrial and infrastructure projects granted clearance every month of the year, the contest for habitat, livelihoods and claiming rights over them, was visible. Aiding all this was an efficient regulatory regime “meant” to protect the biodiverse and fragile environment of the country.

he NREGA, by providing legal guarantee to work, marks a

Paradigm shift from all earlier and existing wage employment programmes because it is an

As I walked on Christmas day through milling crowds within Delhi’s new age monuments, I was once again convinced that there is a place where I don’t belong. And not just that my long ago contracted phobia, just seems to grow. For long I could not put a name to it. I would go through [...]

While Congress government at the Centre is fuming over demands for a separate Telangana state in Andhra Pradesh, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati shot another letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding statehood for Bundelkhand and Western Uttar Pradesh

The extremely well kept secret on what and how police reforms should be came out into the public domain after almost 20 years of the reports prepared by the National Police Commission.

I am not an Islam expert. This should be asked from the people who consider themselves as the guardians of Islam. But, I will say that if people are given reservation in terms of economic status then we will support.

Every anniversary of a trauma, whether Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Bluestar, Ahmedabad or the anti-Sikh riots on Delhi’s streets, turns into a struggle between anger and amnesia. It is a no-contest. Amnesia wins every time. Eyeless in Bhopal. Heartless in communal riots. Clueless in Ayodhya. Mindless in government. And, maybe, pointless in rage. Perhaps the determining fact [...]

Delhi will face a huge massive protest soon. More than 5000 the landless farmers have warned that if the government does not fulfill their promises then they will resort to massive satyagrah.

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