Protesters forming a human chain at the Raj Ghat against the CAA and the NRC on January 30, 2020. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma
CAA

Indifference in the Time of Political Repression

Jharna Pathak

The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the National Register of Citizens / National Population Register (NRC/NPR). Such a move will be an assault on the plurality embedded in the Constitution of India. A likely result, it is feared, will be a sense of loss of ...

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<b>An Asiatic Lioness at Sasan Gir Sanctuary in Gujarat (2018). File photo: Vijay Soneji</b></br> At the inaugural meeting of the Indian Board of Wild Life in 1952, Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, the first Chairman of Board, had bemoaned that the lion had become endangered, wanted the Government of India to declare it to be in need of special protection, and called for the rehabilitation of the lion in its old haunts. The inaugural meeting of the Board was held between the November 24 and December 1, 1952, at Lalitha Mahal Palace, Mysuru.
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Lecture: Jayachamaraja Wadiyar and the Indian Board of Wild Life

Jairam Ramesh

Text of a lecture delivered by Jairam Ramesh, MP, at Mysuru as part of the Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Birth Centenary Celebrations, on February 20, 2020.

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Congress, DMK, and NCP MPs staging a protest against the CAA, NRC and NPR on the first day of the Budget Session at Parliament House in New Delhi on January 31, 2020. Photo: R.V. Moorthy

CAA and the Devaluation of Secular India

Elizabeth Seshadri

The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA 2019), has touched a raw nerve among Indians who grew up in an India that was a melting pot of diversity.

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The Union Finance Budget Papers being checked before being taken inside the Parliament house in New Delhi on Saturday, February 01, 2020. Photo: R V Moorthy

Union Budget 2020-2021 Documents

The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Budget for the financial year 2020-21 on February 1, 2020. Her speech in Parliament and ...

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Jairam Ramesh in coversation with former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi in Chennai. Photo: K.V. Srinivasan

Event Report: 'Don't see him with 1962 lens' (includes video and audio)

Video: The Making of Independent India and V.K. Krishna Menon Audio: 01:46:02 Minutes : 1.The Making of Independent India and V.K. Krishna ...

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Video: Healers or Predators? Healthcare Corruption in India
Video: Private Advice, Public Interest : Democracy and India's Permanent Executive
Romila Thapar- In Her Own Words
Information as Empowerment
Cooperative and Competitive Federalism to Foster Reform: The Case of the Power Sector
Annual Lecture No.1
Panel discussion on The Union Budget 2017
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The newly inaugurated 40 MLD Sewage Treatment plant at Doddabele, off Mysuru road, at Kengeri, by Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), in Bengaluru November 08, 2019. Photo: K Murali Kumar

Water Conservation in Bengaluru Needs Attention

S. Rajendran

Bengaluru is one of the few cities in the country with an assured drinking water supply thanks to the River Cauvery although there are many challenges ...

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The Supreme Court of India. File photo: The Hindu

Law and Faith: Constitution as the Touchstone for Interpretation

Pranjal Kishore

On November 14, 2019 a majority of a five-member bench of the Supreme Court of India passed a bizarre order.1 The bench had heard a batch of petitions ...

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Uniform Civil Code: The Importance of an Inclusive and Voluntary Approach

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Policy Report No. 27

Farmer Producer Companies: Preliminary Studies on Efficiency and Equity from Maharashtra

Girija Shankar

In recent years, the concept of Farmer Producer Company (FPC) has gained the attention of researchers. Though relatively new in India and still in an emerging phase in Maharashtra, these FPCs are being viewed as a possible replacement for the old cooperative model and taken the form of new moveme ...
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Alamu

Alamu is a Doctoral candidate in Political Science at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interest is in the area of State politics in India, specifically Tamil Nadu. As ...

 

Mudasir Amin - Report Published

Mudasir Amin’s research interests include human rights, humanitarian aid, and the non-profit sector, with a special focus on Kashmir. This interest guided his journey from graduation with a Science degree through ...

 

O. Grace Ngullie - Report Published

O. Grace Ngullie’s research focuses on aspects of social welfare governance, nature and extent of transformational politics and possibilities for a transformative implementation of public policies to towards achieving an ...

 

Mohd Osama - Report Published

Mohd Osama's research interests cover electoral politics, voting behaviour, and political anthropology. He is a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

 

Girija Shankar - Report Published

Girija Shankar graduated in Agriculture Rural and Tribal Development from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University in 2016 and joined the Tata Institute of Social Sciences for a post-graduate degree in Development ...

 

Kanika Sharma - Report Published

Kanika Sharma’s research interests are in gender, social inequality, and health. She has an M.A. in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and an M.Phil in Social Sciences in Health from Jawaharlal Nehru ...

 

Swapna Sundar - Report Published

Swapna Sundar's research explores the ethical issues surrounding research in rehabilitation engineering and assistive technolologies involving persons with disabilities. As a Public Policy Scholar, her research will be ...