Samadharma: Periyar’s Idea for India
More than a criticism of religion, ‘samadharma’ is a commitment to equality and to a secularism that can guarantee it.
The Silences of the Delhi Declaration
The G-20 meeting in Delhi was occurring in the midst of an acute global economic crisis. Yet the G-20 summit did not take any initiative in the matter of overcoming this crisis, especially with regard to the external debt of the third world countries.
Bharatmala Project: Adani-Led Consortium, BJP Donors, Firm with BJP Links Get Tenders in Breach of Norms
A consortium led by Adani Transport was awarded the Suryapet and Khammam project though it didn’t have the requisite construction work experience.
Vishwakarma Yojana Is Varnashrama Dharma in a New Bottle
The PM Vishwakarma Yojana mirrors past caste-based exclusionary policies, confining marginalised groups to traditional occupations and impeding their access to higher education, contradicting constitutional principles of justice and equity.
Digital India Has Run Out of Freedoms
With the Personal Digital Personal Data Protection Act, the Government of India claims it has provided Indians with the ability to exercise their fundamental right to privacy. The reality is that it is full of exceptions that suppress our freedoms.
Himachal’s Four-Lane Highways to Hell
For years, India’s highway authority has cut away at the mountain state’s slopes to make wider roads for traffic. The result has been cataclysmic landslides.
Data: Rise in Attacks on Christians in India, Up Four Times in 11 Years (2012-2022)
There have been 525 attacks against Christians in India just in the first eight months of 2023. This year will likely cross the violent record set in 2022, and in 2021 before that.
India’s ‘Alternative to Hong Kong’ Proceeds in Lush Nicobar Island, as Govt Ignores Pleas of Local Tribals
Over the past 17 years, a Nicobarese tribe inhabiting an island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years has pleaded with the union government to return them to the ancestral land they lived in before the 2004 tsunami. But the government is planning to build massive tourism facilities on the island, so it has ignored their pleas.
The Story of How Modi Government Turned its Back on Forest Conservation to Favour Corporate Interests
The Modi government persisted in finding ways to open up forests for commercial plantations, beginning shortly after taking office and ultimately achieving it through recent amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act that damages the rights of tribal people, official documents reveal.
What Ashoka University Can Learn from Gandhi, Tagore and Nehru’s Thoughts on Academic Freedom
The all-out assault on the autonomy of Ashoka University and its regrettable capitulation to such menacing interferences reminds one of British rule, when universities of pre-independent India were being controlled by the colonial government directly or indirectly.