Sewage Testing as a Pandemic Monitoring Tool
A common challenge faced by governments across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic is to identify patients affected by the ...
Pandemic Exposes Weaknesses in India’s Disaster Management Response
Disasters are testing times for institutions and individuals, processes and procedures, and policies and their implementation ...
A Reality Check on India’s Search for Digital Utopia
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the persistent digital divide afflicting rural India owing to poor and insufficient internet ...
The leadership has failed to rein in the police: A.P. Durai
Of late India’s police forces have made headlines for wrong reasons such as extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths. What is ...
Ensuring Zero Tolerance for all Forms of Forced Labour
Images of countless migrant workers either painfully trekking back to their villages of origin often with children in tow, or ...
'Mediation Finding Favour in Dispute Settlement'
Mediation as an alternative way to settle disputes is now fast catching up in the country with even some senior members of the ...
A Pandemic as a Political Reality Check
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought governments and their policies under scrutiny. In India, daily official bulletins talk about the ...
Indifference in the Time of Political Repression
The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the ...
CAA and the Devaluation of Secular India
The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019), has touched a raw nerve among Indians who grew up in an India that was a melting ...
B.V. Acharya, Senior Advocate and one of Karnataka’s eminent lawyers for several decades and five times Advocate General of the State is of the view ...
Jingoism will not be able to surmount the deep discontent, says Manish Tewari
The Balakot bombings that followed the terror strike in Pulwama have given an edge to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)’s ...
Playing Politics with the Jamaat in Kashmir
The Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir, was recently banned by the Union Home Ministry for the third time in its chequered ...
The Global Environment Outlook-6: Spotlight on Synergy between Health and the Environment
The Global Environment Outlook-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (GEO-6), released on March 13, 2019, covers all environmental ...
Speaking Truth to Power: The Indian Media’s Descent from Sharp Hawks to Screeching Parrots
It was heartening to see the media collectively stand up to the Narendra Modi government, when with characteristic bluster, it ...
"BJP's prospects are bleak in the whole country": Siddaramaiah
The former Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah emerged as an all important leader for the Congress party in Karnataka when he led the ...
Fatal, not Funny: Nationalist Outrage & Journalists against Journalists
India’s dyed-in-the wool ‘nationalist’ TV channels have made it clear that even as they rage against Pakistan, they will also hunt ...