Society

The results of India’s tough Common Law Admission Test are unequal in socio-economic terms, highlighting the deleterious effect that a candidate’s low income and a low caste can have on performance.

A personal remembrance of Aijaz Ahmad, scholar, thinker, Marxist, communist, and one who tried so much to make India his home but was not allowed to.

"The next time you feel the urge to feed an animal, either to pay obeisance to a deity or to help a ‘starving’ animal, please ask yourself if your action could have unintended consequences,…

Exactly a 100 years ago, Gandhi was sentenced by a court for ‘sedition’. Its memory makes us revisit the Non-Cooperation Movement, which introduced mass politics into India.

Government programmes for the indigenous that do not listen to and involve the local communities will not succeed in improving wellbeing.

Hunger and malnutrition have worsened in India with the onset of the pandemic, but the information we have points to a deterioration even before Covid-19.

Governments of every political dispensation have sought to hollow out India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Only a mass movement that keeps the vulnerable at its centre can make the MGNREGA what…

A young Muslim reflects on the collapse of constitutional promises and on the everyday fears and dilemmas faced by the minorities.

In spite of a crippling US blockade, Cuba, with its strong biotech industry and a commitment to public health, has developed as many as five vaccines against Covid-19, achieved the highest…

"The state’s withdrawal from partnerships with CSOs and its move towards market-based institutions and high net-worth individuals has privatised its welfare and redistribution functions. This…