IndusInd Bank Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for Private Banking Reforms
A Rs.1,530 crore loss from mispriced derivatives and delayed disclosures raises concerns about weak oversight and risky strategies in private banking.
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Distress Deepens on India’s Farms; Protests Likely to Intensify
In Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party government’s shift from ally to adversary in the farmers’ struggle reflects deeper faultlines in India’s agrarian policy and political landscape. India’s agrarian distress is unresolved even though the performance of the agriculture sector has been buoyant.
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Waqf Bill: Bulldozing Minority Rights – 3 Articles
The Bill sidesteps constitutional guarantees to sanction state intervention into the religious affairs of a community, barely concealing the intent to dispossess.
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CPM and Fascism – 2 Articles
‘Why Karat Lets Modi-RSS Off the Fascism Hook?’; and: ‘Fascism or Neo-Fascism: Whatever You Call it, Fight It!’.
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Eid: Celebrating Unity Amidst Pain – 3 Articles
‘A Lunch on Eid’; ‘In Pain Yet Unbroken: Eid at Sambhal’; and: ‘An Iftar at Hazrat Nizamuddin’s Dargah, a Date with History’.
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Repeated Displacement Forces Jharkhand Tribals to Leave Ancestral Lands
Coal mining has uprooted many indigenous communities, forcing them to leave their ancestral lands, even as migrants move to the state for livelihood opportunities created by the mining industry.
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Underpaid and Unheard: The Struggle of Kerala’s ASHA Workers
The ASHAs of Kerala receive a meagre honorarium though they play an indispensable role in the State’s healthcare. They are seen as ‘volunteers’ and the Centre refuses to classify them as ‘workers’, but the State government has failed to meet their immediate demands for fair pay and social security.
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Caught Between Exploitation and Extremes, Western Ghats’ Future Hinges on Local Action
The fragile ecosystem of the Western Ghats is threatened by deforestation, quarrying, and largely unplanned development. The escalating pressures of climate change expose this unique natural heritage to even more degradation and destruction. With political will faltering, scientists are urging local communities to take the lead on conservation and climate action.
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564 People on Death Row in India, Highest Since the Turn of the Century
In 90% of all death penalty sentences in 2024, trial courts imposed sentences in the absence of adequate information about the accused, finds a recent report.
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Where is the Data on the ‘Misuse’ of 498-A?
The popular discourse around the notion that laws enacted to protect women are being ‘grossly misused’ seems to have reached a fever pitch. The Supreme Court itself, in the past, has called it “legal terrorism”. But where are the statistics to remotely establish any such conclusion?
