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‘We approach environmental cases like criminal lawyers’
TAKE a good cause to court and what can you hope to get? Only as ...
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'Headline hungry officers will land in trouble’
GOVERNMENT officers have been in the news recently for what many would consider the wrong ...
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‘Tech has to be teacher driven in schools’
MUCH store is being placed by online learning. Companies in the business of tutoring children ...
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‘In a pandemic official data is crucial. We need it daily’
THROUGHOUT the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic, the extent of the tragedy ...
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Messy regulation and bad vibes are hurting NGOs
VOLUNTARY organizations have increasingly been under pressure to meet regulatory requirements, find funds for causes ...
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‘With GI status, farmers do get better prices’
WHEN Dr C.R. Elsy did her Ph.D. it was in breeding rice plant varieties. But ...
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In Goa, Rainbow Warriors build on community
GOA is famous all over the world for its resplendent beaches and dense forests. Yet, ...
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‘Let Ayurvedic doctors be surgeons but train them’
AYURVEDIC doctors trained as surgeons in Ayurvedic colleges have been allowed by the government to ...
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’Why can’t big players buy in the mandi?’
Even as the government holds talks on its three contentious farm laws, promising amendments, farmers ...
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‘Basic worker protections lost under new laws’
When millions of workers literally burst on to the scene during the sudden lockdown in India, ...
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Are investors, NGOs ready for a Social Stock Exchange?
The idea of having a Social Stock Exchange in India has been circulating since it ...
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'Farmers need predictable linkages with markets'
After their agonizing experience in cities during the lockdown, migrant workers, in very large numbers, ...
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‘Green approvals given online are a mockery’
The future of the human race depends on the health of the planet. This is the ...
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‘We need an inter-state migration council’
MIGRANT workers have been at the core of the Indian economy. People from villages work ...
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'People better than govt in family planning'
A useful voluntary organization should be ahead of its time. The Population Foundation of India was one such ...
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'I was recreating those times through the prism of love'
The plight of the Kashmiri Pandit community, uprooted from its homeland three decades ago due ...
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'I believe in people's participation'
The surprising new entrant into Delhi politics is Arbind Singh, national coordinator and founding member ...
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'We work for everyone, in every area'
It is pretty much a done deal that the vote of the poor will go ...
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'The Northeast's fears of being swamped are genuine'
A jumble of assertions has engulfed India over the passing of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act ...
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Aishe Ghosh: 'JNU is worth fighting for'
Aishe Ghosh, president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU), spoke to Civil Society ...
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'Bill on data gives little to citizens, too much to State'
Right through the debate on Aadhaar, the absence of a law on data protection found ...
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Shireen Vakil: 'The justice system isn't working.'
The strength of a democracy can be measured by the working of its justice system. ...
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'Delhi's Central Ridge could be a beautiful urban forest'
Pradip Krishen is a home-grown expert on trees. Insightful and sensitive to cultural influences, Krishen ...
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'MPs could spend their local area funds better'
Members of Parliament get Rs 6 crore a year to spend on the uplift of ...
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Ankit Srivastava: 'We will bring water bodies back'
In days gone by Delhi used to be dotted with water bodies. Many have disappeared ...
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'Bring back bacteria and sanitise less'
Dr Pallab Ray explains the findings of a study led by him on resistance to ...
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'Education policy doable but will it get done?'
Madhav Chavan, CEO of Pratham, provides a perspective on the provisions of the draft National Education Policy ...
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‘A candidate’s allegiance is to the ticket-giver not voter’
The past two decades have witnessed growing concern over diminishing fair play in elections and ...
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'The higher education market has gone wild'
Is the proliferation of privately run colleges and universities in India a good thing or ...
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Small biz: How to make it cool for the young.
Everybody has got the lowdown on the unemployment problem. Nobody seems to have figured out ...
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'We must unionise women workers, speak for them'
The feminist movement has taken different turns over the years, but to remain relevant it ...
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'A basic income will enable youth to make choices"
Sikkim has a lot going for it. The state’s economy has been growing at 12 ...
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'Tech must go bottom up and take people into account'
Digital technology has brought major changes in India and there are more coming. It has ...
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State and people: 'We need dialogue for development'
Development is about demand and delivery. If people know what to ask for, governments will ...
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‘We have set up palliative care centres in 8 districts’
Telangana has become a frontrunner in State-supported cancer treatment by opening palliative care centres in ...
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‘Gurugram must be dealt with as a single city'
Barely a year after it was created, the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) found its ...
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'If we earn more at Amul, we pay the farmer more'
Amul is easily one of India’s most recognised and loved brands. Much of the following ...
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‘To fund green projects look beyond banks’
India’s environmental record stares the country in the face, be it the foul air in ...
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‘Affordable housing needs better processes’
Affordable housing allows people with low incomes to live decently and stay healthy. The idea ...
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‘Poor families need balanced home cooked food first’
In 1974, Dr Samir Chaudhuri, a paediatrician working in Kolkata’s slums, founded Child in Need ...
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‘When you are in govt, you can’t afford to be defiant’
Governance in Delhi over the past three years has come to resemble the traffic on ...
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Japanese billionaire speaks up for leprosy patients
Every year, on World Leprosy Day, Yohei Sasakawa makes a Global Appeal to end stigma ...
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‘We have raised crop output but not farm income’
THe rural sector faces multiple challenges ranging from environmental decline to lack of infrastructure and ...
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Pvt hospitals: Why health can't be a business
Every now and then, tragic stories about the consequences of poor quality healthcare make news ...
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Metro fares: Let a regulator decide on a hike
When the Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) decided in May to raise fares to meet ...
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India can go electric by 2030, says Chetan Maini
Chetan Maini is the pioneer of the electric car in India. His Reva was an ...
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‘NGO funding has been falling quite drastically’
The voluntary sector in India has been under regulatory pressure for one reason or the ...
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‘GEAC and Niti Aayog are wrong on GM mustard’
Differences are out in the open once again over genetically modified (GM) crops with the ...
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‘A lot of work is being done in govt schools’
Interest in government schools has been growing. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has sought to ensure ...
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‘India is on the cusp of energy change’
Ajay Mathur took over as Director-General of TERI (The Energy Resources Institute) in 2016. He ...
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‘We are unusual as a university and attractive'
The Azim Premji University was founded five years ago to contribute to achieving a just, ...
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‘Disabled people now have jobs in best of companies’
A new law on the rights of people with disabilities was passed in the winter ...
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‘Gurgaon can be a walkable, cyclable city one day’
Gurgaon’s rapid growth has come with wide roads, lots of cars, gated communities and shopping ...
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‘Note ban has put digital inclusion on fast forward’
With the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes the goal of rapidly converting ...
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‘Midday meals for children are a national investment’
Madhu Pandit Dasa oversees the world’s biggest midday meal programme. He is chairman of the ...
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‘Urban heritage should have wide ownership’
As urbanisation spreads, how can heritage be saved? In the rushed transformation that Indian cities ...
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‘Give cities a share of GST to make them viable’
India’s long-term economic prosperity will be closely linked to how its cities perform. Can they ...
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‘Govt has asked for advice on net neutrality’
Are net neutrality and discriminatory pricing of data on the Internet on their way back ...
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‘We have become guinea pigs for biometrics’
For the past decade state governments have launched a series of Internet-based initiatives to deliver ...
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‘Let this be the last photo-op for drought’
Two headlines on water have competed for mind space. The first was on a train ...
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