Linking the protests to Delhi riots, police are going after four labour rights activists who were summoned between April and August, and were asked who had ‘funded’ the citizenship law protest in Khajuri Khas area In the last five months, the Delhi police’s special cell has summoned at least four labour activists to question them […]

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Michiel Baas’s book that looks at the social settings and aspirational trajectories of India’s new middle class is an important contribution to the understanding of urban centers in the country “Little things” was how VS Naipaul began his response to a journalist’s question on how he could foresee in the late Eighties that India was […]

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Students protest as Ambedkar University seeks to end blanket fee waiver for marginalised communities Ambedkar University, Delhi, is set to discontinue its blanket fee waiver for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and disabled students from the 2020-21 academic year. Instead, the exemption will be decided on the basis of family income. The proposed policy is expected […]

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When the economy contracts by nearly a fourth, it’s bound to affect all our lives, one way or another. We just may not be aware of it India first declared its quarterly gross domestic product, or GDP, figures for the period April to June 1996. GDP is a measure of the economic size of a […]

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Priya Ramani’s lawyer makes final arguments in MJ Akbar defamation suit Continuing from where she had left off on Saturday, Priya Ramani’s lawyer, Rebecca John, presented her final arguments at a virtual hearing on the defamation suit brought against the journalist by Bharatiya Janata Party leader MJ Akbar. Akbar had filed the case in October 2018, […]

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The fact that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is running schools is one of the reasons why the Capital city lags behind. This is why the Delhi government’s efforts do not lead to a better outcome No matter how the education system may have been transformed by the Delhi government, the Union Territory still misses […]

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Women of marriageable age are under pressure from their parents to get married soon. Stuck at home due to the pandemic, they have no choice but to listen to harangues about how time is running out  The ongoing pandemic has negatively impacted normal life. Needless to say, this impact has not been uniform — some […]

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With online classes hardly viable in poor families with two or three school going children, their education is bound to suffer. The risk of them being put to labour or married off is real   Manisha Tiwari lives in a village of Jharkhand’s Koderma district. Since March, when the lockdown was imposed to fight the spread […]

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