New Delhi, Oct. 2 -- A quarter century ago, I was working with beggars in Baroda. Initially, I was trying to find out how many beggars there were in the city and how they formed a community. It was na... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- "We'd have been happy to give up land for a school or hospital, but we don't understand how this project helps us, not when it's taken our sole livelihood," said Relli Ramakrishna... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- The controversial and ongoing Intensive Special Revision (SIR) in India, which has been tied to citizenship, unlike the passport and other documents, is reported to have already s... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- In mid-August, a labourer in a village in Karnataka's South Bengaluru district chanced upon some discarded medicine vials and some packets containing white powder on his way to th... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- There is fresh buzz over boycotting elections in the wake of "Gyaneshgate". This time it is a bit louder than in July last year when I argued in Frontlinethat by participating in ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- Around October 2, the noticeboard outside Kamarajar Memorial School in Mumbai's Dharavi takes on a particular cast. Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri are there, as expected, ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- This summer abroad, I read books old and new, including the mammoth Middlemarch by George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans), which Martin Amis called the best English novel (in a 1967 l... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- At more than Rs.11.16 lakh crore, the value of India's milk output is higher than that of any other agricultural commodity, exceeding the combined value of paddy and wheat, acco... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, which sends the largest number of members to Parliament (80), have often been compared to a mini general election, and the 2027 election wil... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Soon afterAdityanathtook over as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on March 19, 2017, the Chief Minister's office complex in Lucknow turned from white to saffron. AndAdityanath'so... Read More