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When Injustice Prevails

An examination of 8 well-known terror cases which resulted in acquittals reveals how innocent Muslims are arrested, often tortured, and then suffer prolonged trials. They are eventually acquitted by…
▶25-Sep-2025
Darab Farooqui

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana: Real Welfare or Tokenism?

Despite substantially expanding the number of banks accounts , the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana delivers little real inclusion. Accounts serve mainly insurance sales, not credit or security. Weak…
▶19-Sep-2025
Kshipra Jain, Manish Sinsinwar

Gen-Z and Nepal’s Ongoing Struggle for Change

With unprecedented speed, violence, and destruction, the Gen-Z uprising in Nepal ended in euphoria with the government forced to resign and the appointment of an interim prime minister of the…
▶22-Sep-2025
Krishna P. Adhikari, David N. Gellner

The Bugs Fighting Superbugs

As antibiotics increasingly fail against dangerous bacterial infections, a century-old solution from the past, bacteriophage therapy, is making a comeback. India’s vast phage diversity offers a rare…
▶18-Sep-2025
Sudipta Mondal

Relocating Tigers, Displacing Tigers

In a wildlife reserve in Chhattisgarh, villagers see plans to relocate tigers as doubly unjust, displacing by force both humans and tigers into areas that they do not belong. The injustice to humans…
▶11-Sep-2025
Sharib Zeya

Rethinking the Age of Consent in India

Instead of lowering the age of consent in sexual activity, introducing close-in-age exemptions for 16 to 18-year-olds—paired with judicial oversight and better education—offers a better way to…
▶09-Sep-2025
Kartikey Singh

When the State Always Doubts Your Identity

Exercises like the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls presage a state of affairs where documents and IDs can never prove sound identification and where citizenship of the ordinary resident…
▶04-Sep-2025
Nayanika Mathur, Tarangini Sriraman
Explainer
Explainer

130th Amendment Bill: Constitutional Morality on Trial

Constitutional morality demands accountability through fair trials, reminding lawmakers that fairness—not expedience—ensures the integrity of democracy. The 130th Amendment Bill, however, risks…
▶01-Sep-2025
Shubham Kumar

Where the Law Forgets the Maker

Indian law creates a legal vacuum around traditional designs by failing to recognise collective creation, generational knowledge, and community-based craftsmanship. This makes cultural appropriation…
▶20-Aug-2025
Sheetal Srikanth

Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Public Distribution System

A study reveals that distributing rice and wheat through India’s PDS costs twice as much as millets environmentally. The PDS inadvertently promotes water-intensive crops in stressed regions,…
▶25-Aug-2025
Raghav Puri, Prabhu Pingali
Essay
Essay

What Lies Behind the World Bank’s Estimates of Low Poverty and Inequality in India?

The World Bank has used non-comparable data, made numerous and inexplicable changes to its methodology, and has departed from past accepted practices, thereby casting doubt on the quality of its…
▶20-Aug-2025
Himanshu

Bengali Muslims of Assam: In Extreme Poverty and Yet Harassed

Hindutva politics and the entrenched ethnic tensions in Assam have intensified the “othering” of Bengali Muslims in the state. But these "others" live in extreme poverty compared to other…
▶19-Aug-2025
Subhendu Khan, Soham Bhattacharya