Fifty-three years after the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm Sweden, marked a landmark event of environmental activists, indigenous people, scientists and officialdom, World Environment Day, June 5, Bharat Dogra writes on how Indian local communities, especially women, are taking charge of seed conservation and rejuvenating efforts, defeating attempts by corporates to monopolise and monetise this traditional wisdom
Following petitions filed by family members, High Court seeks clarity on status of two individuals previously declared ‘foreigners’ but released on bail and reporting regularly to police under Supreme Court guidelines
After centuries of domination, surprisingly it is the ‘Brahminical-Gene’ which is under all sorts of threats. Now, the threat has manifested through Anuradha Tiwari’s...
The sum total of what cruelties can be suffered when state authorities become unaccountable and function above the law, slurring ordinary Indians as “Bangladeshi”; the first person exclusive accounts are from six hapless women from various locales in Assam, fortunate to be dumped back within Assam on a highway far from home after first being unlawfully pushed into to Bangladesh!
There are several international and regional disputes over the sharing of water of several rivers. These are likely to worsen in times of increasing...
Girish Kasaravalli, one of the great masters of Indian cinema, speaks about his idea of filmmaking and specifically about his film ‘Koormavatara’, which was...
Though three countries scored higher than India with Myanmar holding the top spot, followed by Chad and Sudan, in these two countries the mass killings are ongoing. This makes India's position particularly noteworthy as a “flawed democracy” and as a potential new flashpoint
The Times of India reported that a 19 year old student, Farhad, a Muslim, studying in the B-Com course was set on fire in broad day light on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan 8 outside the Hindu College, Moradabad; the assailants were fellow students, Aarush Singh, 21 and Deepak Kumar, 20