A four-member delegation of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) headed by General Secretary Sitaram Yechury is on a visit of Manipur.
The conflict has a long history of mutual suspicion and has been fueled by the BJP-led Manipur government's decision to evict tribal villagers from reserved forests, leading to widespread discontent among the Kuki community...
The perceptive image of a ‘world-class city’ hardly allows slums to grow. It is against the ‘global aesthetics’ that determines the ‘beautiful’. So, whenever there is any event of global importance --- be it the...
Year after year, political parties promise the poor that they will provide them with houses during elections. The government also introduced the ‘Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makaan’ scheme, but when it comes to reality, these are...
Although slums are looked upon as a blot on the aesthetics of city life, it needs to be remembered that the existence of slums is a testament to the failure of the state to provide the urban poor with affordable housing.
'The government shifts for development where the brahmins, upper caste, and upper class settle. And in turn, these development projects shift the Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims and poor away from the vicinity of the development.'
Several petitions seeking conservation natural resources such as forests, wetlands, and hills from encroachments have been filed, but why people settled in these locations in the first place is a central question that the...
In March, 2020, the villagers of Dalwas were forced to flee from their homes as their houses came down and agricultural land was submerged due to landslides. The residents and local politicians blamed unscientific highway...
The Bhakra dam, hailed as one of ‘temples of modern India’, wreaked unspoken havoc on the lives of villagers across districts of Himachal Pradesh who had...
Residents of the area dubbed as the Yamuna floodplains have repeatedly been subjected to forced evictions. Many are now disillusioned with politicians and have...
Declaration of a buffer or eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around protected forests and sanctuaries would not result in displacement of people living there nor would...
The Himanta Biswa Sarma government has been carrying out evictions in different parts of the state since it assumed power in May 2021. The drive in Nagaon's...
The largest eviction drive in Assam's Nagaon district, near the birthplace of Vaishnav saint Srimanta Sankardeva here, began on Monday amid tight security
Mining of bauxite and other minerals is bringing untimely death, illness, displacement and unemployment to the tribals of Jharkhand.
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) Filippo Grandi, every year of the last decade, the numbers of displaced people have climbed....
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says in a report that an already critical situation is being exacerbated by ongoing fighting between...
For poets like Tenzin Tsundue and Bhuchung D. Sonam, the long-drawn struggle for Tibet’s self-determination has meant that their quest for homeland remains a...
Memories of Srinagar left behind in photographs that define the beauty and simplicity of the capital city
Ashok Raina, son of Kashmiri Pandit scholar and poet Kashi Nath 'Bagwan', who moved to Himachal Pradesh following the insurgency in Kashmir in the 90s, laments...
Cheetah Camp in Trombay has been a transit camp forever. Its residents, displaced from another settlement have waited for nearly 46 years to get houses with...
