Neeta Deshpande

Karnataka government plans to procure cloth from powerlooms for school uniforms, thus impacting the livelihood of handloom weavers in the state.

People of different hues found a common cause in the fight against corruption. Despite the limitations of the campaign, it reaffirms that the Indian people can be non-violently mobilised in large numbers for a genuine reason that strikes a chord with

Although, the battle is hardly over, the moratorium on Bt-Brinjal demonstrates that public opinion is vitally important to counter anti-democratic impulses pushing forward a corporate agenda

Our existence is so comfortably shielded from the realities of poverty, that the unbridgeable distance between the two affords little scope for any real engagement...

"You must pour your dil into your music," my guru Pandit Prabhudev Sardar was fond of saying. While firmly rooted in the tradition of the idiom of classical music, he was no follower of sterile conventions.

Gandhi called him 'abhay sadhak'-- a fearless seeker of truth and his mission to win a life of dignity for victims of leprosy went against the very grain of society which treated the leprosy-afflicted as untouchable outcastes.