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Making Sense of Recent Developments in the Indian Labour Market

The PLFS for 2022-23 reports the highest workforce participation rate and the lowest unemployment rate in the last six years. This has been the result of the…
▶17-Oct-2023
Akshit Arora

Journalism Cannot Be Prosecuted As 'Terrorism'.

"Subjecting journalists to a concentrated criminal process because the government disapproves of their coverage of national and international affairs is…
▶04-Oct-2023
Digipub and other press groups

The Workers Left out of the Law to End Manual Scavenging

A decade after the law to end manual scavenging, thousands of workers continue to clean waste with little protection. The narrow framing of the law contributes…
▶28-Sep-2023
Ahana Ganguly

What Covid-19 Taught Us About Antibiotics Misuse

The unchecked use of antibiotics increases the odds of a pandemic in which infections are resistant to the available stock of antimicrobials.
▶11-Sep-2023
Kamini Walia

Open Letter to Corporate India to De-fund Hate

An open letter by current and former faculty members at the IIM Bangalore calling to defund the hate speech.
▶31-Aug-2023
The India Forum

The Sophistry of Calls to Replace the Constitution

India’s Constitution is more robust than the politics of those who call for its replacement.
▶23-Aug-2023
Rohin Bhatt

Rajasthan’s Killer Sandstone Mines

Mine workers in Rajasthan are perhaps the most vulnerable among manual workers in India’s unorganised sector. They are exposed to various kinds of dust, which…
▶08-Aug-2023
Seema Sharma

Criminalising Marital Rape in India

The judiciary's disinclination to criminalise marital rape flows from a vertical approach to constitutional rights, which fosters a public-private divide…
▶31-Jul-2023
Swarati Sabhapandit

Job Insecurity of Women Academicians in India

Women who teach in colleges and universities in India on annual contracts have very little social security. They are often not eligible for paid maternity…
▶18-Jul-2023
Mehak Majeed

The Navroze Contractor I Knew

A tribute to the renowned cinematographer and photographer, jazz aficionado, and motorcycle enthusiast who packed three lives into one.
▶22-Jun-2023
Shanta Gokhale

Costs of Centralisation in MGNREGA

The union government’s desire to ensure uniformity of the Management Information System across the country in overseeing MGNREGA has resulted in workers losing…
▶12-Jun-2023
Chakradhar Buddha, Venkata Krishna Kagga

Constitution, not Caste, Must Govern Temple Space

Despite Tamil Nadu’s history of anti-caste movements, continued reports on the denial of temple entry to Dalits indicate that the space has to come under…
▶08-Jun-2023
Dhivya Sivaramane