Dalit activists protest at Thane railway station in Mumbai on January 3, 2018. Dalits, educated and aware, are now responding to the antagonism of dominant castes and the collateral damage…
If the state and Centre can collaborate on a national tax system, why can’t India similarly create a nationwide universal healthcare system, created and run primarily by the government?…
Prolonged heat-wave conditions–in other words, a summer lasting up to eight months–could be the new norm by the 2070s for the Gangetic plains, if greenhouse-gas emissions are not cut…
For 24 years, the Indian Railways have tried to find a solution to the 3,980 tonnes–497 truck-loads (at 8 tonnes per truck)–of excreta ejected from trains on to tracks…
With recent wins in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now in power in 19 of 29 Indian states, the best performance by an Indian…
Ashish Sinha, 50, professor of earth sciences at the California State University in the US, studying calcite deposits in a cave in Uttarakhand. His team gleaned 5,700-year rainfall data using…
The Mangar Bani is a sacred forest on the edge of Delhi, in Faridabad. The Haryana government’s reluctance to classify tracts like these outside Gurgaon as Aravallis could endanger rare…
