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What did you do in the lockdown?
The lockdown forced people to retreat into their homes and lead a different life, a ...
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‘MGNREGA money will run out with rising demand’
As people pour into villages from cities in a desperate effort to get back home, ...
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In Ludhiana, clean-up with scrutiny by residents
After getting the Punjab government to allocate funds for the cleaning up of the Buddha ...
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Car seat to crutch and music app for the disabled
The world’s first self-standing crutches are called Flexmo. TurnPlus is a swivel chair that can ...
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When a family meets: A play on relationships
A family drama simply entertains but The Gathered Leaves is not that kind of play. ...
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Study abroad but stay at home for a while
Universities and schools were the first to shut down when the coronavirus began spreading rapidly ...
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The next pandemic?
Masarhi is a village in Bihar so steeped in grinding poverty that its people are known ...
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Unionize MGNREGA for more impact
Our article is a response to two stories which were published in the June and ...
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10 Bengali films worth watching
Cinema's greats like Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen once held Bengali cinema’s flag aloft ...
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Time for reset with elbow room for the states
Our national anthem extols the extent of India by naming a few provinces of those ...
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Bridging Delhi’s nutrition deficit in slums
Arvind Singh has become accustomed to distress calls for food, late at night. Since the lockdown ...
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It is important to help the poor access their rights
Are advocacy, yatras, social audit and online services sufficient to enable the rural poor to ...
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Sanitation economy is on the rise with jobs, tech
Has the world ceded to sanitation being costly and difficult, a problem we must solve ...
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Chanderi times
A sari mela, organised by Dastkar, brought weavers from all over India to Delhi. Among ...
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The good noodle is here and getting popular
NOODLES come with irresistible charms. Children who won’t eat their meals will happily slurp up ...
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Bad apples: Scab takes a big toll in Himachal
Apple orchards in Himachal Pradesh have fallen victim to a disease called scab after a ...
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In Doon a call to save trees from airport extension
About 25 km from Dehradun is a village called Thano with a small bazaar and ...
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Zilla man, students revive check dams
For the first time in decades this February, Sundara Gowda, a 55-year-old farmer in the ...
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Indraani Singh
In 1995 when Indraani Singh became India’s first female pilot to be Commander of an ...
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Landfills don't work, learn to segregate garbage
The thought of an Indian city most often throws up images of teeming millions, traffic ...
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Engineer-ecologist: Tribute to Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
In the many years that the Leftist parties governed West Bengal, they paid little attention ...
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Farm magazine by farmers works well for them
In more ways than one, Adike Patrike is a unique publication. We tread a new path ...
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JNU celebrates street theatre with Sahmat
Protesters became performers on 12 April, National Street Theatre Day, at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) ...
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Development is the target, says Tata Steel’s Sourav Roy
It is five years since Jamshedpur began hosting Samvaad, an event at which tribal people ...
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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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Longer hours, lower wages, less security, fewer women
Job creation was on the agenda of the BJP government when it came to power ...
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Burhan Wani and the flashpoint in Kashmir
The protests and violence that have followed the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, 20, have ...
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The right to know
This story appeared in Civil Society's September 2003 edition. Till two years ago, what Sundernagari knew ...
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Flowers with uses
Ulat Kambal This lovely flower enchants you with its warm hues. It’s called Ulat Kambal, ...
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Father says son killed for just owning a horse
Since his childhood, 21-year-old Pradip Rathod, a Dalit from Timbi village in Bhavnagar district, always ...
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India makes incense the world worships
India’s agarbatti industry does more than spread fragrance. It employs a huge number of people, ...
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Talking to young men about women
TWenty-three-year-old Gaurav Tripathi comes from a large, conservative joint family headed by his paternal grandfather ...
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Importance of being AAP and earnest
It was clear to anyone moving around a bit in Delhi before the elections that ...
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