Farmers of Madhya Pradesh stood watching helplessly as swarms of locusts consumed their standing crop of maize, vegetables and pulses India is now facing the worst desert locust attack. The Centre has issued warnings to 12 states. So far, the pest has destroyed crops in five states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and […]

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As the Coronavirus creates a public health crisis, the heat wave is causing migrants headed home without adequate food or water to fall ill, even die Last week, 29 labourers were admitted to a temporary hospital in Raksa, Jhansi on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. They were going to their respective villages […]

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The only sign of a welfare state in villages occupied by Sahariya tribals is grains provided to ration cardholders. Without MGNREGA schemes or access to wage work, seasonal migration is their only hope This summer is an unusual one for Puran, a Sahariya Adivasi from Kunwarpur village in Shivpuri, MP. Every year during this time, […]

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As the lockdown chapter shows no signs of ending, reading habits are undergoing a change    Restrictions due to Covid-19 have impacted a lot of things including the reading patterns. A market research firm named Avance Field & Brand Solutions LLP recently did an interesting survey. The survey found that the number of readers who spent […]

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YouTube has become the Establishment and TikTok the upstart that is being denigrated for giving play to content created by people who are less sophisticated and urbane. The fight is getting nasty  The pandemic has thrown India, like the rest of humanity, into a great crisis. It is an unprecedented challenge not only for the […]

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Lack of sex education, misogynistic Hindi film songs and improper socialisation of teenagers will only perpetuate locker room talk well into adulthood I was in Class 10 in Shivpuri. All the boys in my class were discussing the new girl Prakriti. The science teacher was absent that day. Amid the noisy chatter, Atul came from […]

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The delay in entrance examinations due to Coronavirus has put admission seekers in a fix After taking his 12th Board exam Raunak, a resident of Gurugram, went to Kota to take coaching classes for the medical entrance exam scheduled for 3 May. He thought he could utilise whatever time he had to prepare.  “When the […]

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The culturally rich Gadia Lohar Community has been historically marginalised and the lockdown due to the Coronavirus is increasing their suffering Mamta, 25, holds her one-year-old daughter close to her chest as the police van passes by.  From within the van, a policeman can be heard announcing that nobody should venture out of their homes […]

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