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Indian jail cell_India prisons_Flickr

May 31, 2019

Inside Indian prisons: What does the data tell us?

Prison Statistics India 2016, published in April after a long, unexplained delay, omits details about caste and religious identities of the prison population.

by Nishant Gokhale | 3 min read

Sujata Khandekar

May 03, 2019

Grassroots leadership: Six things we learnt from Sujata Khandekar

From leaving your assumptions, to checking your own privilege—important lessons for anyone working with marginalised communities.

by Prakriti Singh | 1 min read

Jan sahas-community moblisation

April 25, 2019

Want social change? Give communities more agency

No external force can bring about real change in society. Only the community itself can.

by Ashif Shaikh | 7 min read

forest rights

March 15, 2019

Are conservation groups actually safeguarding our forests?

Conservation groups should be helping Adivasis save forests. Instead, many are working to evict them.

by Madhu Ramnath | 5 min read

trucks on a coal field in India-Wikimedia Commons

March 05, 2019

Forced displacement and its links with poor health

Displacing people from their own lands has been shown to increase vulnerability to exploitation, pushing Adivasi communities to poverty and ill health.

by Adsa Fatima, Deepa Venkatachalam, Sarojini Nadimpally | 7 min read

ASwaminathan old Indian woman writing on paper-ageing in india

February 27, 2019

How age induces poverty, and policy fails to keep up

India has no legal provisions for income security of the elderly, making the impacts of ageing far harsher for those who are already economically vulnerable.

by Kinjal Sampat | 5 min read

Baiga Adivasi in protest walk in India-adivasi

February 12, 2019

How development excludes Adivasi peoples

Failing to understand the Adivasi world view and imposing the dominant development paradigm on Adivasi peoples is affecting their identity and well-being.

by Debjeet Sarangi | 4 min read

Large crowd of people

January 10, 2019

It's time for CSR to invest in justice

With a direct link between violence and GDP, the cost of not working on access to justice is high. To really make a difference to our legal system, private sector money must invest in the rule of law.

by Gagan Sethi | 3 min read

Village panchayat having a discussion

November 21, 2018

Holding the powerful accountable

Social audits bring together the voices of all stakeholders, including those that do not often get heard, and strengthen transparency and accountability at all levels.

by Jitendra Rath, Sameet Panda | 5 min read

Xavier Dias profile_BnW

November 15, 2018

IDR Interviews | Xavier Dias

The oppression of Adivasi peoples in their own lands, at the hands of outsiders, led a young student activist from Bombay to spend the next four decades of his life fighting for land and labour rights.

by Sneha Philip, Smarinita Shetty | 6 min read

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