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The Zero Waste Forum and the road to COP31 at Antalya: Can India embrace zero waste as climate action?

As COP31 approaches, global forum in Türkiye reframes zero waste as a climate, resource and production strategy, challen...

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Uttara Kannada’s evergreen forests remain under relentless assault in the name of clean energy

Decades of hydropower and new ‘green’ projects like Sharavathi Pumped Storage project in Karnataka’s Western Ghats are e...

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India Out of Work

An excerpt from ‘India Out of Work: Rethinking India’s Growth Story’ India Out of Work explores the growing crisis in I...

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Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

An excerpt from Realising Rights: A Handbook of Welfare in India In the 2000s, the character of the welfare regime ...

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सिजीमाली विरोध-प्रदर्शन एक अहम सवाल उठाते हैं: वित्तीय संस्थानों को ऐसे प्रोजेक्ट्स में जनता का पैसा क्यों लगाना चाहिए जिनसे सामाजिक, पर्यावरणीय और जलवायु-संबंधी नुकसान होता हो?

मार्च 2023 में, ओडिशा सरकार ने वेदांता लिमिटेड को रायगढ़ा और कालाहांडी ज़िलों में स्थित सिजीमाली पहाड़ियों से बॉक्सा...

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Meet the Women Living India’s Microfinance Loan Nightmare

Women bear the burden of a lending system that profits from chronic financial distress as they borrow to pay for food, h...

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Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Social protection and social security are crucial components of a country’s development agenda. Social security mech...

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Why does the Global Zero Waste Forum matter for India’s waste management?

Forum will demonstrate practical patchways for implementing zero-waste pathways and help mobilise finance, investment Im...

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The Sijimali protests raise a crucial question: why should financial institutions invest public money in projects generating social, environmental, and climate-related harm

In March 2023, the Government of Odisha granted a 50-year mining lease to Vedanta Limited for the captive extra...

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The ‘cockroaches’ India’s elite created — and can’t exterminate

When India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant compared unemployed young people to cockroaches last week, he probably expecte...

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September 16, 2026

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran & Vishvaja S

The Zero Waste Forum and the road to COP31 at Antalya: Can India embrace zero waste as climate action?

As COP31 approaches, global forum in Türkiye reframes zero waste as a climate, resource and production strategy, challenging India’s petrochemical expansion and recycling-centric policies Summary At the Road to Antalya: Zero Waste as Climate Action forum in Türkiye, zero waste was fram...

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September 16, 2026

Nirmala Gowda

Uttara Kannada’s evergreen forests remain under relentless assault in the name of clean energy

Decades of hydropower and new ‘green’ projects like Sharavathi Pumped Storage project in Karnataka’s Western Ghats are eroding protected habitats, disrupting rivers and intensifying conflicts over land and livelihoods. The Gerusoppa Dam on the Sharavathi River in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada di...

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September 16, 2026

Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati Parida

India Out of Work

An excerpt from ‘India Out of Work: Rethinking India’s Growth Story’ India Out of Work explores the growing crisis in India’s labour market. Over the past few years, non-farm jobs, which are crucial for diversifying the economy and providing stability, are not growing as they should. The formal job...

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September 16, 2026

Dipa Sinha and Rajendran Narayanan

Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

An excerpt from Realising Rights: A Handbook of Welfare in India In the 2000s, the character of the welfare regime began to change. From 2004 onwards, major social policies reflected a significant shift towards the language of rights (Chopra 2014). A series of rights-based laws, such as the Nat...

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September 16, 2026

Deepmala Patel

सिजीमाली विरोध-प्रदर्शन एक अहम सवाल उठाते हैं: वित्तीय संस्थानों को ऐसे प्रोजेक्ट्स में जनता का पैसा क्यों लगाना चाहिए जिनसे सामाजिक, पर्यावरणीय और जलवायु-संबंधी नुकसान होता हो?

मार्च 2023 में, ओडिशा सरकार ने वेदांता लिमिटेड को रायगढ़ा और कालाहांडी ज़िलों में स्थित सिजीमाली पहाड़ियों से बॉक्साइट निकालने के लिए 50 साल की माइनिंग लीज़ (खनन पट्टा) दी। ये दोनों ज़िले संविधान की पाँचवीं अनुसूची के अंतर्गत आते हैं और इन्हें ‘अनुसूचित क्षेत्र’ घोषित किया गया है। इन...

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September 16, 2026

Samali Banerjee

Meet the Women Living India’s Microfinance Loan Nightmare

Women bear the burden of a lending system that profits from chronic financial distress as they borrow to pay for food, healthcare and survival. Mounted and patched together, just like their debt, at a respondent’s house. Photo: Samali Banerjee Forty-five-year-old Shabreen (name changed) li...

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September 16, 2026

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Social protection and social security are crucial components of a country’s development agenda. Social security mechanisms not only reflect economic growth but also indicate the capacity of the state to deliver welfare to its poorest and most marginalised populations (Sülzer 2008). The Internati...

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September 16, 2026

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

Why does the Global Zero Waste Forum matter for India’s waste management?

Forum will demonstrate practical patchways for implementing zero-waste pathways and help mobilise finance, investment Image: iStock The upcoming Global Zero Waste Forum in Istanbul, Turkey from June 5-7 is not just another international conference with glossy banners and large stage panels. Its core...

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September 16, 2026

Deepmala Patel

The Sijimali protests raise a crucial question: why should financial institutions invest public money in projects generating social, environmental, and climate-related harm

In March 2023, the Government of Odisha granted a 50-year mining lease to Vedanta Limited for the captive extraction of bauxite in the Sijimali Hills located in the Rayagada and Kalahandi districts. Both districts fall under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and are designated as Sched...

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September 16, 2026

The Asia Times

The ‘cockroaches’ India’s elite created — and can’t exterminate

When India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant compared unemployed young people to cockroaches last week, he probably expected outrage, maybe an apology cycle and then silence. What he got instead was 15 million Instagram followers in five days, a cockroach logo on a mobile phone, and a movement that has...

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The Zero Waste Forum and the road to COP31 at Antalya: Can India embrace zero waste as climate action?

Uttara Kannada’s evergreen forests remain under relentless assault in the name of clean energy

India Out of Work

Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

Meet the Women Living India’s Microfinance Loan Nightmare

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Why does the Global Zero Waste Forum matter for India’s waste management?

The Sijimali protests raise a crucial question: why should financial institutions invest public money in projects generating social, environmental, and climate-related harm

The ‘cockroaches’ India’s elite created — and can’t exterminate

The Zero Waste Forum and the road to COP31 at Antalya: Can India embrace zero waste as climate action?

Uttara Kannada’s evergreen forests remain under relentless assault in the name of clean energy

India Out of Work

Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

Meet the Women Living India’s Microfinance Loan Nightmare

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Why does the Global Zero Waste Forum matter for India’s waste management?

The Sijimali protests raise a crucial question: why should financial institutions invest public money in projects generating social, environmental, and climate-related harm

The ‘cockroaches’ India’s elite created — and can’t exterminate

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The Zero Waste Forum and the road to COP31 at Antalya: Can India embrace zero waste as climate action?

Uttara Kannada’s evergreen forests remain under relentless assault in the name of clean energy

India Out of Work

Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

Meet the Women Living India’s Microfinance Loan Nightmare

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Why does the Global Zero Waste Forum matter for India’s waste management?

The Sijimali protests raise a crucial question: why should financial institutions invest public money in projects generating social, environmental, and climate-related harm

The ‘cockroaches’ India’s elite created — and can’t exterminate

The Zero Waste Forum and the road to COP31 at Antalya: Can India embrace zero waste as climate action?

Uttara Kannada’s evergreen forests remain under relentless assault in the name of clean energy

India Out of Work

Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

Meet the Women Living India’s Microfinance Loan Nightmare

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Why does the Global Zero Waste Forum matter for India’s waste management?

The Sijimali protests raise a crucial question: why should financial institutions invest public money in projects generating social, environmental, and climate-related harm

The ‘cockroaches’ India’s elite created — and can’t exterminate

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