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A family crossing flood waters in a country boat in the flood-affected Nagaon district of Assam on June 2, 2025. The intensifying floods have made the State India’s most climate-vulnerable, driving large-scale displacement.

India’s climate exodus has begun

Floods, drought, and rising seas are driving migration across India. Yet there is no national policy to recognise or support those forced to move.

The razing of a decades-old Tamil migrant settlement in Delhi exposes the widening gap between political promises and urban housing policy.

What Madrasi Camp reveals about urban citizenship

In Delhi’s development map, the working poor remain negotiable, expendable, and voiceless.

Vendors at Sarojini Nagar attempt to repair damage and restore their shopfront after a recent demolition drive disrupted the busy market.

Clean and vendor-free: Delhi’s makeover seems to have no room for the poor

Under CM Rekha Gupta’s “cleanliness” drive, thousands of street vendors are being evicted. So who’s the city really for?

Books displayed at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) campus in Bengaluru in September 2007. Over the past several years, NCERT has repeatedly pruned the historical narrative in the name of “rationalisation”.

What NCERT’s new textbook cuts from history, and why it matters

By removing the Mughals and Delhi Sultanate, the new curriculum promotes a narrow idea of India, say critics.

People board an overcrowded train for Pragyaraj’s Mahakumbh, at the New Delhi railway station on February 15, 2025.

Mahakumbh death toll could be higher than official figures: PUCL report

Fact-finding investigation finds signs of three separate killings and official attempts to hide bodies and block access to morgues.

The CR park fish market, where vendors were threatened for selling fish during Navratri, remains untouched.

A fishy tale of two markets in the capital

Poor vendors of Govindpuri reduced to rubble while CR Park’s upscale fish sellers survive. Demolitions seem to know which addresses matter in Delhi.

School students in New Delhi on November 27, 2024. A recent survey found that 44 per cent of parents across India reported a 50 to 80 per cent school fee hike in the past three years, with 8 per cent saying it exceeded 80 per cent.

In Delhi, private school education comes at a growing price

Parents are protesting, schools are deflecting, and politicians are blaming each other, while education gets more exclusive—and expensive.

Bus passengers with pink tickets, issued for free for women in all DTC and cluster buses in New Delhi, October 29, 2019.

From pink tickets to permission slips?

Free bus rides gave Delhi’s women freedom and savings. A new card-based system could snatch that back—from those who need it most.

Safai Karamcharis, or sanitation workers, protest the recent death of a manual scavenger at Jantar Mantar, Delhi on March 25, 2025.

Workers die in Delhi’s sewers while government denies responsibility

Agencies like Delhi Jal Board allegedly avoid responsibility through contractualisation, hiring poor migrants as “disposable workers”.

Zarina’s home and her small business were destroyed in the Delhi riots of 2020.

Delhi riots 2020: Five years on, trauma runs deep

Lives shattered, justice denied as riot survivors in North East Delhi endure displacement, poverty and trauma while perpetrators walk free.

Vitasta Kaul,Vedaant Lakhera

While the government defends the highly contentious project on strategic and economic grounds, experts highlight concerns over governmental transparency, displacement of tribes, and environmental sustainability.

Centre denies receiving objections from tribal communities on Great Nicobar Project

Union Minister Jual Oram tells Parliament that no objections were received from tribal councils or activists, despite documented opposition.

Institute of Social Studies Trust put up cartoon depictions about women empowerment and addressed other important issues.

Asian Women’s Film Festival: Two decades of film activism and feminist solidarity

At Delhi’s annual gathering, women filmmakers from across Asia create spaces for unheard narratives while combating myriad barriers.

Vitasta Kaul,Vedaant Lakhera

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