Tag: In focus

The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods

In a letter to the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India, over 90 members of the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), a collective of former civil servants from the All India and Central Services have urged that the Census process be transparent and inclusive; that OBCs be specifically enumerated, DNTs be enumerated as also the 1369 mother tongues in India be also separately classified (through supervision of the Anthropological Survey of India

At the 2026 India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi — pitched by the government as a signal of India’s rising stature in artificial intelligence and technological innovation — one of the most discussed stories was not a breakthrough in research, but a blunder by Galgotias University that turned into a national embarrassment.

One of the contemporary lamentations — including from legacy...

A Goalpara woman’s case underscores structural barriers faced by economically disadvantaged individuals in proving citizenship

Come February 20, and the world will once again...

Following the recently unleashed hysteria on the misnomer “Bangladeshi immigrants”, spearheaded by BJP elected officials from the Centre to States, as many as 12 Bengali migrant workers have been murdered, revealing the physical targeted harm that can flow out of systemic hate speech made by those in public authority; these are statistics compiled by the West Bengal Migrants Welfare Board; 4 of the 12 killed have been in “progressive” Maharashtra and 10 in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

The Wire's submission to the government at the post-facto hearing on a request to block social media URLs over a 52-second satirical video.

The march of the Ultra-Right in the Global South...

There is a popular expression in Malayalam: when the...