Recently, the Labour Bureau released its findings from the annual household survey on employment. India’s economy grew at 7.1 percent in the first...

India’s most regressive, and rigorously practised social system—caste hierarchy—is back in the national spotlight. To recap the current debate, cow...

Bundelkhand has developed a fatigue from the endless sermons on protecting the environment. Discussions on environmental degradation seem to have...

By the time you read this edition, the monsoon might have entered mainland India. This is going to the first normal monsoon in three years, says the...

The images are familiar, though stark. In Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, police have been deployed to guard precious pools of water in dry beds of...

Like last year, the budget for the financial year 2016-17 also had a much-desirable provision. Last year, the government had increased the share of...

As the Narendra Modi government prepares for the 2016 Budget, here is a look at developments that will shape the Centre’s expenditure next year. The...

The prologue is long and clear. Never before has a government made such a well-scripted disclosure of the country’s most guarded political document,...

When some merchants from the north went down to the south, a prince in the Deccan asked: “Who is your king?” The answer was, “Some of us are governed...

On January 1, I became one of the thousands of participants in India’s first odd-even number plate system in Delhi to curb vehicular pollution. Being...

It is always good to look back on developments in the past year, for such an exercise brings out trends or lessons that we usually don’t get to see...

There is some perceived good news about the monsoon as it completes one-quarter of its four-month season. The country has received 24 percent above...