Segregated & Unequal: New Research Reveals How Public Services are Restricted, Denied to Muslims, Dalits in Ghettoised Localities
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Segregated & Unequal: New Research Reveals How Public Services are Restricted, Denied to Muslims, Dalits in Ghettoised Localities

ByKavitha Iyer

A study finds Indian Muslims to be systematically disadvantaged, less likely to have public schools, clinics, sewerage, water supply and closed drains than in non-Muslim areas, a misallocation of government services that is comparable to the current situation of blacks in the United States.

How The Law Criminalises Forest Dwellers in Madhya Pradesh, Makes Them Face Long Trials for Hunting, Collecting Honey
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How The Law Criminalises Forest Dwellers in Madhya Pradesh, Makes Them Face Long Trials for Hunting, Collecting Honey

ByKavitha Iyer

A study examined arrest records and forest offences under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. While 9 out of every 10 cases were still pending, impoverished forest-dwellers suffered livelihood loss and a heavy financial burden as trials dragged on for years.

India’s Unemployment Crisis: The Distress Is Worse Than the Data Suggest
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India’s Unemployment Crisis: The Distress Is Worse Than the Data Suggest

ByKavitha Iyer

Highly qualified candidates seeking low-level jobs, reduced wages, lower real incomes, worsening quality of employment, millions moving from salaried jobs to casual work—many things disguise unemployment in India.

India’s Potato-Chip Tussle: How Gujarat Farmers Won a Battle—but Not the War—Against Pepsico
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India’s Potato-Chip Tussle: How Gujarat Farmers Won a Battle—but Not the War—Against Pepsico

ByKavitha Iyer

On 3 December, a tribunal revoked the sole rights granted by the government to Pepsico over a potato used to make its best-selling Lays brand of chips. But while the order delighted farmers, it did not reflect India’s unique law that allows farmers to trade in even those seeds protected as intellectual property.