The ‘boy’ has arrived, throwing economic tantrums across the world. From Peru to India, from the power corridors of the White House to the outgoing...

Seventy-year-old Anil Chandra Mahanta in Bangladesh’s Rangpur district can’t remember how long he has been cultivating brinjals in his small farm....

India has never witnessed so many political debates on development and people’s aspirations as in recent times. The aam aadmi has become politically...

This is a trend that politicians can’t afford to ignore. The share of woman in overall voters is increasingly sharply. What’s more, women are also...

Symbolism is essential in politics. A year ago when the anti-corruption campaign led by Anna Hazare split up after one of the key leaders, Arvind...

All food items now compete with onion in being unaffordable. By August this year, onion price went up by 245 per cent and that of other vegetables by...

During the nine-hour-long debate over the National Food Security Bill in Lok Sabha on 26 August, K V Thomas, the minister in charge of consumer...

NUMBER of people who can benefit from government’s welfare programmes is going to swell. Currently, the central government caps the entitlements under...

On the face of it, the release of India’s latest poverty estimate and the decision to create the 29th state, Telengana, seem to be two unrelated...

This is a school where both students and teachers are adults. Books and regular classes are not part of the curriculum and the pupils are practising...

Is a village council qualified to deal with religious beliefs? The answer lies in a recent order by the Supreme Court in the Vedanta case. Gram sabhas...

Should access to water and sanitation be a right? NGOs and public policy experts are debating this. Though the debate is not in public space, the...