Open Skies, Blind Eyes
IndiGo’s crisis shows how liberalised aviation leans on forbearance—profits first, safety later, with the State and passengers holding turbulence.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 7: Mobilising Funds for ‘Education for All’
The twelfth and concluding part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey: From Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the measures the Government of India can take to increase its revenues to finance universal, free, good-quality education for all children, and also increase its social sector expenditures in other areas.
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The Aravalli Verdict: When Law Protects Profit, Not Life – 3 Articles
“From Living Landscapes to Extractable Matter: The Aravalli Verdict in Perspective”: By reducing the Aravallis to a numerical height threshold, the ruling converts a richly interconnected ecological landscape into a narrow technical category. Also: “Aravallis on Trial: When Law Protects Profit, Not Life”; and “Redefining Aravallis: Theft of the Commons”.
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The Frontline Workers Who Register 90% of India’s Births—and Why 10% Slip Through
ASHA workers, India’s frontline health workers, handle a range of tasks: from fever surveillance, antenatal care to accompanying pregnant women to healthcare facilities. The bulk of India’s healthcare data is generated and maintained by these frontline workers. For this, they are paid an honorarium which is barely enough to make ends meet.
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India’s Richest Civic Body, World-Class Neglect: Why Are People Still Dying on Mumbai’s Roads?
Despite a budget that exceeds some States, the BMC has failed to address a chronic civic issue that has cost the city several lives.
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The Chief in His Chiefdom: On the Legacy of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai
If there is one common thread that runs through the six-month tenure of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai – which ends today – it is that he treated his Chief Justiceship as a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ story. If there was some long-standing precedent that he did not like, he used his powers as the master of the roster to overturn it…
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Swami Vivekananda and Gandhi Taught Us Respect for All Religions; While Sangh Attacks Christians – 3 Articles
“’Christmas Is to Christians What Diwali Is to Us’: What Today’s India Can Learn from Gandhi”; “To Those Who Persecute Christians”; “Sangh Scares Off Santa: A Christmas of Fear”: A sustained hate campaign drives this violence, portraying Christians as threats to Hindu culture. Anti-Christian propaganda has caused a 500% surge in attacks over the decade.
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Anjel Chakma’s Death and the Idea of India Today – 2 Articles
“Whose Life Counts? Anjel Chakma’s Death and the Idea of India Today”: Constitutional values endure not because they are written down, but because citizens insist on enacting them. Anjel Chakma’s death demands such insistence, not only as mourning, but as constitutional vigilance. Also: “In Memory of Anjel Chakma, a Candlelight Vigil in Delhi”.
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How the UP Government Demolished the Home of a Prayagraj Activist; and How His Daughter Went on to Track 53 Punitive Demolitions
“The House That Parveen Fatima Built: How the Spark was Lit for Anti-Muslim State Retribution in Modi’s India”: On how the Uttar Pradesh Government demolished the family home of a Prayagraj activist, who spent 21 months in jail for no crime. Also: “Her Home was Destroyed by the UP Government. She Went on to Track 53 Punitive Demolitions”: Interview with Afreen Fatima, his daughter.
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Population ‘Explosion’ to Low Fertility: India’s Demographic Anxieties Play Out on Women’s Bodies
Women continue to be treated as instruments to serve demographic goals rather than as individuals who have personal freedom.
