India’s dispossessed swell in numbers as bulldozers raze their houses, with Haldwani as the most recent flashpoint
In the transit town of Haldwani, about 50,000 people are currently embroiled in a legal tussle with the North Eastern Railways and the state government for their right to reside on what they call their ancestral land
When it comes to protecting the rights of the poor, the higher judiciary is more punitive than protective
The fact that they had been living there for decades does not matter to authorities when they bulldoze the homes of hundreds of Adivasis and Dalits, rendering them homeless and forcing them to live in the open
Anti-displacement movements, while often impeding governments’ development plans, have rarely impacted the electoral fortunes of the political parties in Bengal, be it Nandigram and Singur or elsewhere
Named after one the most iconic figures of Dalit empowerment in Maharashtra, the residents of the slum on Mumbai’s creek live perpetually under the brutal and rapacious claws of BMC authorities and their bulldozers
While authorities in Delhi destroy homes of the poor in the name of development and beautification, rights activists claim that in most cases, urban slum clusters mushroom around the so-called ‘elite’ and ‘high society’ neighbourhoods that survive by outsourcing blue-collar errands
Eviction and harassment of minority community, who are Muslims of Bengali origin, in Assam continues unabated and unchallenged as the ruling BJP compares its eviction drives as the ‘Last Battle of Saraighat’
While it remains to be seen whether the government will budge under pressure in the case of the taking over of ‘grazing land’ and ‘state land’, the government is certain about auctioning properties in Gulmarg and Pahalgam whose leases have expired. Hoteliers were not expecting this blow.
Decades after the Narmada Bachao Andolan began, the struggle over evictions still continues
Economic development that threatens the lives and livelihoods of indigenous people cannot be the only model available to us
Conflict between the state and extremists uses schools as shields and generations of children suffer
A speculative account of the current state of China in world politics
A photofeature on two spirited sisters in Ghitorni village along the Delhi Mehrauli–Gurgaon Road
A woman writes about life on the streets in Mumbai
