At over 80 years old, she is known as Planthottachi—named for the jackfruit (plavu) tree that gave shade to her home. Her life is a living archive of resilience and loss. When I met her, she greeted ...

According to official figures, the estimated number of people who took a dip in the river at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, which concluded on 26 February, is 66 crore. The Uttar Pradesh government ...

There is a lack of inclusive and equitable quality education in India. Due to socio-economic disparities and gender-based discrimination, children are struggling with basic literacy and numeracy ...

Sixty-year-old Nanchan from Kuppam Colony was trampled by an elephant, while gathering forest produce near the Tamil Nadu border. The elder described the elephant as a “lost protector,” displaced by ...

This unprecedented move disrupted the academic calendar and destabilised the hopes and imagined futures of millions of students. The cancellation of this key “rite of passage” introduced widespread ...

Behind this political theatre of land auctions lies a deeper story of ecological belonging and the unmaking of non-human communities through displacement from their habitats, and their inability to ...

Academics have observed that university matters pertaining to faculty and vice chancellors, syllabi, appointments and terminations have increasingly become politically motivated (Sundar 2024). The ...

However, the sector faces considerable challenges due to heightened price instability resulting from increased global market integration, which disproportionately affects smallholders (Rangachary 2006 ...

For India, this presents a foundational strategic challenge. While the impulse to pursue a full-scale de-dollarisation—an active strategy to replace the dollar—is understandable, the wiser path is ...

This was not entirely unexpected as consumer price inflation has been steadily falling from the previous peak of 6.2% in October 2024, a fall of close to 5 percentage points over the last nine months, ...

Primary education, of acceptable quality, creates the base. Equal opportunities, along with universal access, in school education are critical, but access without quality is no access. Higher ...

The splendid success story of the green revolution in Punjab not only helped the country achieve its much-needed food self-sufficiency but also put Punjab on a higher growth trajectory. With merely 1.