Across the country, men worship women as goddesses and abuse them with no regard for their rights or respect.
Given the increasing polarisation and violence associated with the acquisition and rehabilitation of land in India and inadequate central legislation, a state policy is urgently needed that lays out a framework of principles to protect the people
JADS, an organisation active in defending its members‘ interests in rural districts of Madhya Pradesh, is facing a series of trumped-up police charges. The UK minister for international development has little to say while DFID’s political and economic agenda is so in tune with the Government of In
Many powerful states tend to view current global conflicts through the lens of Islamism, and to put military action at the heart of the response. But the deeper roots and character of these conflicts are to be found in poverty and marginalisation, not ideology.
India's successful launch of a long range inter-continental ballistic missile has led to hyper-nationalist posturing and antagonism with China, of a kind disappointingly reminiscent of Cold War hubris. The bombastic rhetoric must not undo the bilateral ties between the two states.
Mediation has been successful at bringing down levels of violence and bringing popular welfare and social justice demands onto the political agenda. These gains are underthreat as the government fails to take the process seriously.
A sea change is taking place in Indian politics, as the two main traditional political parties lose state elections to regional and upstart parties. What will this portend for India's next general election and how is it reshaping the Indian polity?
Ten years on from the Gujurat riots, the survivors still do not have justice and the bureaucracies that made them possible remain unchanged. This is not a one-off but a trend, which it will take hard questions and an insistence on answers to reverse.
My friends in teaching jobs in Afghanistan and Korea or aid organizations in Bangladesh, nearly all returned to the United States, to ask themselves hard questions about their educational pursuits or their student loans. Suffering offers infinite growth. But faith is like a blanket, only large eno
Bengal’s transition is from the mismanagement of a vanguard party to the misrule of the lumpenproletariat.
One breach of the law cancels out another.
India has tried to strike a balance between support for the Sri Lankan government and calls for Tamil rehabilitation - ultimately backing the UN resolution urging Sri Lanka to investigate abuses of international law during the final phase of the civil war. Behind this lie a number of external, int
