In Punjab, the Accelerating Rate of Groundwater Depletion Is Worrying Both Farmers and Experts
Every year, groundwater levels are falling by approximately 0.49 metres.
Explained: Conservationists Think Translocating African Cheetahs To India Is A Bad Idea
Conservationists have called cheetah translocation a vanity project to grab eyeballs. The authors explain why.
To Rahul with Love from Kanyakumari; Also: Rahul Speech in Delhi on ‘Mehangai’
Open Letter to Mr. Rahul Gandhi: Unlike the divisive, hateful, and violent monologue of the ruling dispensation, your Bharat Jodo Yatra is going to spread the seeds of unity, love, nonviolence, and dialogic engagement with all sections of our country. Also: Govt Facilitating Corporate Loot, Says Rahul Gandhi.
Forget Your Rights and Do Your Duties: Modi’s ‘Kartavyapath’ is a Road Paved With Bad Intentions
In his August 15 speech, Prime Minister Modi sidestepped demands on the government to deliver on its promises and instead laid great emphasis on citizens fulfilling their duties. The Orwellian new name for Delhi’s Rajpath adds to this push.
Remembering Gauri Lankesh: A Hope, a Possibility, a Lesson
Though her assassins and their backers succeeded in killing her, they have failed to silence her.
Assam: What the ‘Voluntary’ Demolition of a Madrasa Says About Persecution of Muslims
For Muslims to ‘prove’ their loyalty to the state, they have to find ‘outsiders’ from among themselves and hand them over to the state.
Census of India: Gone With the Wind
The 2021 Census has been indefinitely postponed with doubts about whether it will even continue in its present form. The governments of both colonial and independent India have drawn on the census for their own purposes, but it always was a rich source of quality data.
Why the CAA and NRC are Unconstitutional – 2 Articles
Though there are several constitutional infirmities in the proposed NRC exercise itself, when it combines with the CAA, it directly and inevitably puts mainly the Muslim citizens of India at the risk of losing citizenship. Hence, the same is discriminatory and falls foul of both Article 14 and the basic feature of secularism enshrined in the Constitution of India.
Why Arvind Kejriwal Is Borrowing the RSS Vocabulary of Supremacist Nationalism
That the Aam Aadmi Party is trying to beat the Bharatiya Janata Party at its own game has been evident over the past couple of years.
Why RSS Cannot Help Hating Jawaharlal Nehru and His Connection With the People of India
Nehru was a moderniser rooted in Indian tradition and was firmly against the ideological vision of Hindutva. No one knows this better than Hindutva ideologues.