Do We Now Have Something to Rely On?
It is educative and encouraging to see that this agitation and its participants – young and restless – have not only been able to dispel the veil of fear in publicly speaking up against...
Uttara Kannada’s evergreen forests remain under relentless assault in the name of clean energy
Decades of hydropower and new ‘green’ projects like Sharavathi Pumped Storage project in Karnataka’s Western Ghats are eroding protected habitats, disrupting rivers and intensifying conflicts over land and livelihoods. India has made ambitious pledges...
India Out of Work
An excerpt from ‘India Out of Work: Rethinking India’s Growth Story’ India Out of Work explores the growing crisis in India’s labour market. Over the past few years, non-farm jobs, which are crucial for...
Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India
An excerpt from Realising Rights: A Handbook of Welfare in India In the 2000s, the character of the welfare regime began to change. From 2004 onwards, major social policies reflected a significant shift towards...
सिजीमाली विरोध-प्रदर्शन एक अहम सवाल उठाते हैं: वित्तीय संस्थानों को ऐसे प्रोजेक्ट्स में जनता का पैसा क्यों लगाना चाहिए जिनसे सामाजिक, पर्यावरणीय और जलवायु-संबंधी नुकसान होता हो?
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Meet the Women Living India’s Microfinance Loan Nightmare
Women bear the burden of a lending system that profits from chronic financial distress as they borrow to pay for food, healthcare and survival. Forty-five-year-old Shabreen (name changed) lives with her two sons and...
Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System
Social protection and social security are crucial components of a country’s development agenda. Social security mechanisms not only reflect economic growth but also indicate the capacity of the state to deliver welfare to its...
Why does the Global Zero Waste Forum matter for India’s waste management?
Forum will demonstrate practical patchways for implementing zero-waste pathways and help mobilise finance, investment The upcoming Global Zero Waste Forum in Istanbul, Turkey from June 5-7 is not just another international conference with glossy...
The Sijimali protests raise a crucial question: why should financial institutions invest public money in projects generating social, environmental, and climate-related harm
In March 2023, the Government of Odisha granted a 50-year mining lease to Vedanta Limited for the captive extraction of bauxite in the Sijimali Hills located in the Rayagada and Kalahandi districts. Both districts...
The ‘cockroaches’ India’s elite created — and can’t exterminate
When India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant compared unemployed young people to cockroaches last week, he probably expected outrage, maybe an apology cycle and then silence. What he got instead was 15 million Instagram followers in five...
Environmentalism is not an obstacle to progress. It is the last warning system before irreversible damage
If this warning system is silenced through courtroom suspicion, bureaucratic intimidation, and financial strangulation, it would weaken India’s capacity to defend itself against ecological collapse The Honourable Chief Justice of India’s recent remarks on...
The Cockroach Movement – OpEd
When India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant compared unemployed young people to cockroaches last week, he probably expected outrage, maybe an apology cycle, and then silence. What he got instead was fifteen million Instagram followers in five days,...
Left out or opting out? India’s absence: What it means for global climate action
When Colombia and the Netherlands convened the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta at the end of April 2026, the intent was clear: to move beyond broad commitments and begin structuring pathways for...
The Lethal Policy Choice of Inequality: How India’s Super Rich Rule Over Democracy
In a country like India, nine out of ten workers are informal workers who are forced to work in insecure, unsafe jobs at dirt wages with no labour protection. This must radically change. Decades...
Midnight raids and mining rights: Odisha tribes take on Vedanta again
Tribal communities in Odisha’s Rayagada district are locked in an intensifying confrontation with mining giant Vedanta Limited over a proposed bauxite extraction project in the Sijimali hills — a conflict that erupted into violence...
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