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India’s new wood certification scheme hopes to lead to greener forests. However, studies show limited market value gains for certified products. Certification…
▶15-Apr-2024
Evaluations of Karnataka’s dispute resolution policies of 2011 and 2021 reveal that the concept of “efficient and responsible litigation” has been missing…
▶21-Mar-2024
Youth anger in India has changed from collective action for a better society to competitive religiosity and hatred.
▶11-Mar-2024
There are two interconnected root causes for the travails of Bihar’s school education system—a paucity of resources and ineffective policies. There is a…
▶07-Feb-2024
Tagore’s visit to China in April 1924 was significant, both then and now. The poet’s vision of Pan Asianism saw Asia as a force for the oppressed. As Western…
▶08-Apr-2024
What kind of India do we want? Alok Sheel pens a ballad on two visions.
▶25-Mar-2024
For half a century, Muhammad Yousuf Muran has been carving wood figurines, the last of his family to practise the art. The lack of patronage has led the…
▶12-Mar-2024
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Letters
Authors' Response
On the first comment by Prakriti Srivastava and Prerna Singh Bindra, the issue is that we have used the words, “awaiting declaration,” rather than the more…
▶11-Jan-2024
Ghazala Shahbuddin and Pia Sethi
No Reprive for Forests
Ghazala Shahbuddin and Pia Sethi write that “The FCAA potentially also exempts other forest lands lying outside the Recorded Forest Areas, including those…
▶11-Jan-2024
Prakriti Srivastava and Prerna Singh Bindra
Neither 'Revidis', nor even 'Freebies'; Something More and Less
This article is, to my mind, the first serious discussion of what was derogatorily referred to as 'Revdis' and then picked up unthinkingly by the media and…
▶05-Dec-2023
P. Gunasekhar, Chennai
Silence about Absence of Science in Government Schools
The article laments the fact that women ‘make up the largest minority group in science’. It also emphasizes how persisting biases have implications for other…
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Padmini Swaminathan Chennai
The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey of 2022-23, The dispensable scheme workers, A review of Ashok Gopal's biography of BR Ambedkar, and more.
The new criminal justice law; The politics of erasure; Protection of the rapist and the molestor in neoliberal India; and more
An X-ray of India's compassion; Job creation in the Indian labour market; The death of a Dalit in a democracy; & more
Bringing Trust to Electronic Elections in India; Citizen vs Labharthi?; Hindu Nationalism in the US Diaspora; and more
On the Cricket World Cup 2023, Emergent India and its Sikh Diaspora, The question of academic freedom, and more