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Speaking up for those remote islands
A country’s attitude to its environment defines how good a place it is to live, ...
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Jobs and skills: What crafts can do for rural areas
AMID the chatter about creating more jobs, the opportunities in promoting traditional skills and crafts ...
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Cities and water: Working with nature is best
POLITICIANS don’t think water except to give it away free. In the absence of political ...
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The vote and after: A post-poll special issue
WHAT do the recent election results tell us? In our view people may care about ...
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Village and city: One needs the other more than ever
ANOTHER election has come and gone without the problems of development getting the attention they ...
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In search of new politics and better governance
The more politicians talk of change, the more similar they seem to become. Politics is in ...
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What’s the future of our growing, dying cities
MUCH is made of how cities matter to the future of India. Not enough thought ...
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Jobs on trees in Kerala and the ASER fine print
THE coconut harvesters featured in this month’s cover story are a good example of how ...
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Our 20th anniversary! Thank you, 20 times over!
PEOPLE express amazement that Civil Society should have survived 20 years as an independent magazine. ...
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Making peace not war a universal response
AS brutality in Gaza reaches a crescendo, a cry for peace goes out in street ...
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Farmers need helping hand to deal with markets
WHEN the Kuttiattoor mango was given geographical indicator status there was reason to celebrate. Its ...
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Value of patience: Why It took SEWA all of 13 years
COMPLEX problems need time to solve. Voluntary organizations in a hurry to deliver outcomes tend ...
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Getting design right makes everything much better
Design matters THERE is a lot of recent policy talk on preschool development. ...
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Drugs, addiction and the Green Revolution
Punjab’s problems have been in plain sight for a long time and it should be ...
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Essays are insightful and we bring them back
WHEN we began our magazine in 2003, we used to publish an essay on the ...
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Officers with a difference deserve to be recognized
IT shouldn’t be the role of the media to cheer the government. On the contrary ...
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Farming plus: Much can be done for rural incomes
A rethink on the farm sector is long overdue. The view that people will inevitably ...
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Cities need expertise and better governance
Our cover story this month is an example of small but important efforts that can ...
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On turning 19 with all its joys and many challenges
TO be able to go the distance is always a good feeling. Completing 19 years ...
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Looking back and ahead in another difficult year
As 2023 is ushered in, it is time to look back and ahead. The past ...
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On the wild side: Wildlife, potholes and construction
INDIA is teeming with biodiversity. Animals, birds, insects, plants, trees, water bodies — there is ...
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Past matters: Hyderabad an example for other cities
CITIES make themselves noticeable in many ways. Heritage brought alive and made accessible is one ...
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Reviving rivers, justice for Bilkis, cookies from insects
HEALTHY rivers make for a healthy economy. But how does one bring ailing rivers back ...
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Living for others, cheetahs, free power, cancer
WE met Ram Gidoomal in the early years of our magazine and so it has ...
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The plant world and what it means to better healthcare
SO much attention has our page on medicinal plants attracted from readers over the past ...
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Dogs at home and dogs on the streets
THERE have been dogs at home from as far back as one can remember. They ...
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Summertime and the living this year hasn't been easy
OUR June issue goes to press with an intimidating summer upon us. It is not ...
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Least-developed districts and their aspirations
ON more than one occasion, as we would go about our stories, we would hear ...
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Frontline people we are proud to know
BLESSED are the people who serve in remote areas. They are self-motivated and get little ...
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Civil Society Public Health Initiative
THE pandemic is a reminder of the need to quickly strengthen our public healthcare system. ...
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We are all of 18! It's great to be around and growing!
IF you asked us how 18 years have passed in our magazine, we would have ...
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Getting the story straight from the source
We have since the inception of this magazine worked with a broad definition of civil ...
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The whole problem with standards
WE can’t stop talking about what a great future the Indian economy has. But how ...
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When justice is strained: The sad case of Stan Swamy
THE problems with our justice system are there for all to see. They have been ...
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Putting out our magazine in the shadow of the virus
IT has been more than a year and the pandemic continues to serve up surprises. ...
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Why we cover politics and why we don’t
OUR readers tell us that they don’t want us to cover politics and politicians. They ...
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Figure out green issues quickly
THE flood in Chamoli and the controversy that has followed are reminders that we are ...
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Lessons from farmers: reforms need buy-in
THE long agitation over the Union government’s new farm laws shows that reforms by stealth ...
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Put strong public healthcare system above all else
A pandemic may not be the right time to judge healthcare systems. The best can ...
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Stop worrying and keep going is our mantra
THE collapse of the economy and the oppressive nature of the pandemic leave us with ...
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Beating the lockdown
Lockdown stories around us are invariably of the hard-luck variety. It has been a punishing time ...
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One more issue under lockdown
This is the third issue of Civil Society brought out in lockdown conditions. It means ...
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Keeping on going in the shadow of the virus
The coronavirus pandemic is a great story. As journalists we have our work cut out ...
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Fringe to the fore
Consumers invariably end up taking what they are given. Someone somewhere shapes their decisions ...
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Rethinking healthcare
Public health services need a big push. A larger spend is required, but it is not ...
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Lurching along
Just when India should be rapidly dealing with its many problems and coasting into a ...
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Take it back
Widespread opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and plans for a proposed National Register ...
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Dharamshala matters
You might ask why we chose to go to Dharamshala to cover a film festival ...
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Customise, localise
Environmental solutions are becoming more precise and targeted and therefore more impactful. Water harvesting is ...
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Civil Society's Sweet 16
The running of a small media enterprise comes with many challenges but the journalistic satisfaction ...
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Tracking cities
Cities have a major role to play in India’s economy, but there is little that ...
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Doctors for all
Finding a doctor has become increasingly difficult. Of course, there are doctors everywhere and their ...
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Politics and beyond
In this magazine we prefer to keep ourselves out of politics. Of course, as journalists, ...
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The business of farming
Cooperatives come with well-known frailties. In many ways, Campco is no exception. It was set ...
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Blessed is the small business for it is the future
The agrarian crisis has everyone worried. But the coolest solutions seem to come from farmers ...
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A slow churn
An economy on the move needs to invest in social change. The problem is that ...
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Biennale and more
Free-falling spaces enrich a democracy. The Biennale held in Kochi, which is featured as our ...
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The NE picture
Much has been said about developing the states in the Northeast of the country and ...
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