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India’s dispossessed swell in numbers as bulldozers raze their houses, with Haldwani as the most recent flashpoint

Issue Date : 30 January 2023

National

'We Are Being Made Scapegoat': Haldwani Evictions Reveal Long Trail Of Clashing Claims

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


National

Eviction & Dispossession: Keeping The Poor On Tenterhooks

When it comes to protecting the rights of the poor, the higher judiciary is more punitive than protective

National

Evictions In Ranchi: With Houses Bulldozed, Dalits & Adivasis Have Nowhere To Hide

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


National

How Electoral Arithmetic Outweighs The Marginalised When It Comes To Evictions

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

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Amchi Mumbai’s Unwanted: The Sordid Saga Of Annabhau Sathe Nagar

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


National

'Slums Of Despair': Delhi Developing On The Rubble Of Bulldozed Homes And Dreams

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


National

Dispossessing Minorities In The Name Of Homeland Security In Assam

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’


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With Hotels Up For Grabs In A Planned Auction, Gulmarg's Hoteliers Stare At Uncertainties

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.


National

The Never-Ending Narmada Nightmare

Decades after the Narmada Bachao Andolan began, the struggle over evictions still continues


National

A Filmmaker On His Encounter With Violence Of Evictions In Jharkhand

Economic development that threatens the lives and livelihoods of indigenous people cannot be the only model available to us


National

Bullets On The Blackboard

Conflict between the state and extremists uses schools as shields and generations of children suffer


National

Is The Chinese Empire Waning?

A speculative account of the current state of China in world politics


Sports

Photo Essay: The Kabaddi Girls

A photofeature on two spirited sisters in Ghitorni village along the Delhi Mehrauli–Gurgaon Road


National

Eviction Diary: What Happens When Dreams Die

A woman writes about life on the streets in Mumbai