India is moving towards computing the value of unpaid work done by millions of people to compensate them in some way.
Dominique Lapierre, author, Indophile and now Padma Bhushan recipient, on the continuing suffering and neglect of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas leak.
There is no logic behind special economic zones, which destroy one form of manufacturing to promote another, says Medha Patkar.
There is also nothing in this Union Budget to stop farmers from dying. It is just rural infrastructure and not agriculture that the Budget is looking at, says Kishor Tiwari of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti.
'I don't feel useless,' says Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Amid compulsions, the Delhi assembly elections would test the Aam Aadmi Party's endurance, says Sreelatha Menon
The Supreme Court seeks to clear anti-gay assumptions surrounding Section 377, says Sreelatha Menon
A party demanding meaningful change seems to have touched a deep chord among voters, says Sreelatha Menon
Implementing the Food Ordinance is the bigger challenge and there are many provisions of the National Food Security Bill which need to be expanded and strengthened.
