Empty promise

Although the Delhi government has accepted the Centre’s diktat that there should be 10% quota for EWS among the upper castes, no vacancies have been advertised since February The Centre has finally released the job data it had put in a vault before the Lok Sabha elections. Now with victory in their corner and a […]

Man vs machine

Launched with much fanfare in February, sewage cleaning machines are set to bring empowerment of disadvantaged castes and eradicate manual scavenging. How is Delhi Government’s initiative working on the ground? We find out Sewage cleaning in India is not just a question of development agenda or civic responsibility—it’s a matter of life and death. Since […]

Cab nightmares

There have been many incidents of unruly behaviour by Uber drivers in Delhi in recent times, but the company has always failed to take these complaints seriously Jatin (name changed) had taken an Uberpool, like any other day, from his home in Gurugram to go to his office on the morning of June 4, 2019. […]

Injured, insulted, defamed

Alam was assaulted on the night of May 25 in Gurugram as CCTV shows but there are some discrepancies in different narratives The Jama Masjid in Gurugram’s Jacobpura is more than a century old. With a freshly painted pink edifice, it imposes itself upon the sprawling and boisterous Sadar Bazaar which is criss-crossed by narrow […]

Living on the edge

Kids in Gurugram’s Banjara Market are discovering the joys of education but their dreams may be crushed by the ruthless actions of civic authorities “My name is Nirjala Rajput and I want to become an IPS officer,” announces a 12-year-old girl sitting with her parents in Banjara Market, a flea market in Gurugram’s Sector 56, […]

Where lost dogs can be found

A website started by a Briton, inspired by information from the US, is now helping Indians find their pets — and for abandoned dogs to find a new home When Ian Jones, a man living in Southampton in United Kingdom, came across the estimation of lost dogs by The American Humane Association, he was flummoxed. […]

The battle for ‘one’

Because why should anyone be Number 2? While the Bharatiya Janata Party has come out as a clear winner in the Lok Sabha polls, TV channels are still battling it out among themselves on who won the TRP race when it came to reporting on general elections. Over the past 24 hours or so, major […]

Opening up a dialogue on autism

The questions and concerns of parents and caregivers of children with autism or associated spectrum disorders are being collated by researchers Born to educated parents in Mississippi, five-year-old Donald Triplett was described by his psychiatrist and physician Leo Kanner in this way: “Even at an early time he was happiest when left alone, almost never […]