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A farmer returns homewards from his farm in a village in Haryana on March 5, 2021. The ongoing farmer protests at the Ghazipur border outside Delhi entered the 100th day on March 6. Contentious new agricultural reform laws have led tens of thousands of farmers to block key highways leading to the capital. Multiple rounds of talks have failed to produce any breakthrough on the farmers' key demand to revoke the legislation. Photo: AP

Food Security and Markets: Understanding the Protests over India’s Changing Social Contract with Farmers

Sukhpal Singh

For more than 100 days now India’s farmers have protested at the Shinghu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders outside the national capital, New Delhi. Earlier, Punjab’s farmers protested within their State for three months before moving to Delhi borders, against a set of laws that would change the nature of the relationship between the state and the ...

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Beneficiaries of India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) wait outside a PDS outlet in East Delhi to collect free ration during the COVID-19 pandemic. File photo: Sandeep Saxena

India's Public Distribution System and the Pandemic – Revisiting Delhi's Beneficiaries

O. Grace Ngullie and Arib Ahmad Ansari

Never since the founding of the Indian republic have so many millions depended directly on India’s government machineries for ...

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Karnataka High Court Justice Ravi Malimath interacting with judges and officials after inaugurating the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) building at the Court Complex in Mandya on February 09, 2020. Also seen are Mandya Deputy Commissioner M.V. Venkatesh and others. Photo: Special Arrangements

'Mediation Finding Favour in Dispute Settlement'

S. Rajendran

Mediation as an alternative way to settle disputes is now fast catching up in the country with even some senior members of the ...

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A view of the deserted Rajpath, New Delhi, on April 9, 2020, the 16<sup>th</sup> day of the lockdown. Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

A Pandemic as a Political Reality Check

G. Vijay and Ajay Gudavarthy

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought governments and their policies under scrutiny. In India, daily official bulletins talk about the ...

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Protesters forming a human chain at the Raj Ghat against the CAA and the NRC on January 30, 2020. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Indifference in the Time of Political Repression

Jharna Pathak

The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the ...

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Congress, DMK, and NCP MPs staging a protest against the CAA, NRC and NPR on the first day of the Budget Session at Parliament House in New Delhi on January 31, 2020. Photo: R.V. Moorthy

CAA and the Devaluation of Secular India

Elizabeth Seshadri

The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019), has touched a raw nerve among Indians who grew up in an India that was a melting ...

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The newly inaugurated 40 MLD Sewage Treatment plant at Doddabele, off Mysuru road, at Kengeri, by Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), in Bengaluru November 08, 2019. Photo: K Murali Kumar

Water Conservation in Bengaluru Needs Attention

S. Rajendran

Bengaluru, with its perennial supply of drinking water from the River Cauvery, may be the envy of many, particularly the residents ...

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