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Swachh Bharat: Who Will Clean & Empty Out 9.8 Crore Septic Tanks/Pits?

Ideally, there should be machines but there is no such plan. That means govt. wants people to continue with manual scavenging.Subodh Varma 28 Nov 2019 A recently released survey report says that over 96% of toilets in rural India have either… Continue Reading →

Punjab’s Rehab Racket: Where Taekwondo Champ Counsels Drug Addicts

An investigation by The Quint into the state of private rehabilitation and counselling centres in Bathinda has revealed that four of these five centres are functioning without the three-year government license, and flouting many norms.(Photo: Arnica Kala/The Quint) Punjab’s Rehab Racket: Where… Continue Reading →

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Never again

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 7 things you should know   Today  marks 73 years since two atomic bombs were dropped over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and maimed, and the effects are still… Continue Reading →

India – Denial of sanction to prosecute defence personnel under J&K #AFSPA

Defence Ministry and Indian Army deny they hold case-related records and procedural information By- Venkatesh Nayak Last week, there was both good news and “not so good” news on the AFSPA front across the country. The good news is, people in… Continue Reading →

A Pakistani Spy and Lord Hanuman Walk Into an Aadhaar Centre. What Does the UIDAI Do?

BY ANAND VENKATANARAYANAN Do Mehmood Akhtar and a Hindu god really get LPG cylinders delivered to them? Does the government have the institutional capacity to stamp out the problem created by its flawed enrolment ecosystem? The UIDAI needs to use this… Continue Reading →

India – Anatomy of an ‘unrest’ and the Media

By- Prempanicker During my time away, a story that fascinated me — in a train-wreck kind of way, and as a cautionary tale of the danger of the media disseminating half-baked news — relates to the murder of one Paresh… Continue Reading →

Saab’s tie up with Adani to sell Gripen fighters may cause bigger scandal than Rafale

By Ashok Swain   Over the last couple of weeks, the joint venture of Dassault Aviation and Anil Ambani’s Reliance has created quite a storm in India after the Congress party made allegations of a huge scam in Prime Minister… Continue Reading →

India’s Demonetisation Move Proves Too Costly An Experiment   #AntiBlackMoneyDay

Suparna Dutt D’Cunha ,  Indians queue near an ATM counter at an Indian bank to withdraw money in Bangalore on November 21, 2016. (Photo credit AFP/Getty Images). Last year on November 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that all 500… Continue Reading →

India – Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace: Reflections on the Private Sector  #Vaw

By-Anagha Sarpotdar This article is focused on implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 in the private sector. It is a sequel to an EPW article published in 2013 which put forth… Continue Reading →

The Caste Question and Songs of Protest in Punjab

The popularity of “mission singing” and Chamar songs in recent times, in response and retaliation to Jatt pop music, in Punjab harks to the larger caste conundrum of the region and its complex historical location as a frontier society. The… Continue Reading →

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