As part of a vulnerability mapping initiative, activist Ajay Kumar and his team are identifying areas where marginalised communities in four districts of Kerala have been excluded from the rescue operations and flood relief activities. It is commendable how many […]
CHENNAI: The number of dalit farmers has declined between the 2001 and 2011 censuses, while there are many more from the community now who are working mainly as agricultural labourers, census data recently released shows. The data also shows that […]
We ought to be a failed society to send our neighbours down the septic tanks to certain death or a life of filthy ignominy. Eleven people have died in seven days this last week in septic tanks and sewers, six […]
In 2016, 92% of 15-year-old children were enrolled in secondary schools, up from 76% in 2009. Also, increase in enrolment of Scheduled Tribe children was particularly high at 93%, up from 61% during the same period. For ST girls, it […]
Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India relate to “persons” whereas Article 19 relates to “citizens”. There is an incorrect impression in the minds of many in deducing that there is no fundamental right in the hands of […]
SINCE JANUARY 1, 2017, one person has died every five days, on an average, while cleaning sewers and septic tanks across the country, according to numbers collated by the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK), the statutory body that was […]
It is now clear that the University Grants Commission’s new policy for reserving teaching posts is reducing jobs for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes. But it threatens to deprive universities of much more. Since the policy […]
Now, as we are inching closer to the general elections in 2019, perceptions have to be created and narratives have to be managed and this time around it is about the urban naxal, and the series of arrests based on […]
Three years after the murder of Mohammad Akhlaq, there is no remorse in his village. There is a sense of menace. Last week, I went to the village of Bishada. On September 28, it will be three years since Mohammad […]
Universal Basic Income will ensure that no one will sleep hungry. If properly implemented, abysmal poverty will be history. More importantly, Universal Basic Income will restore the human dignity of the poor who have to queue up and face awkward […]
