What can be done for farmers?
Bad news is good news; media revel in news of crisis and catastrophe. No news is bad news; some space has to be filled with news if anyone is going to look at accompanying views and ads. But if there is
Governance Now
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"e-Panchayat is a serious threat to CSCs"
Meena Chaturvedi is an Indian Audit and Accounts Service official of 1987 cadre. After a 23-year career she took voluntary retirement to join SREI Sahaj e-Village Limited as chief executive officer (public
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The cancer train
Passengers on an unusual train journeying the through the thick of Punjab polls discuss their ailments afflicting an entire generation. Strangely, for the state's politics, which is as much blinded by
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RTE audit exposes the Delhi belly
An audit of the RTE Act (Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education) implementation in 10 states exposes poor state of education sector.
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High time smokeless tobacco was banned
On August 1, 2011 the movement for banning chewing tobacco in India saw a turn in its favour. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), a statutory body under the health ministry to handle
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Mumbai dreams
For long we have been fed lies. Mumbai has no scarcity of houses and the key to the truth lies in using digital technology to unlock the city's housing potential.
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Shakti for MNREGS workers
E-Shakti project in Bihar through its biometric attendance and wage disbursement at worksite has empowered workers.
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My cup of tea
Once the domain of uppity, horseback riding British sahibs, tea cultivation is now being taken up by those who had worked on plantations as labour. In the process, women are brewing a fresh story by cashing
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Child malnutrition: myth or reality?
For sceptics, malnutrition statistics in India may lack reliability; however, a closer scrutiny of the same data shows how real is the problem.
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Health of the nation
For a country which is home to one-third of the world's poor, it has been the most striking failure of our public health system to reach out to them. It is not that some of the social or religious groups
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Seeds of discontent
Costly corporate seeds are not only jacking up our food bill but also affecting community sharing.