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Smarinita Shetty
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FCRA licence crackdown has plunged India’s non-profit sector into a crisis
Over 100 organisations have lost their licences in seven months with no clarity on what this means for their workers, the economy and the crucial work they do.
Rajika Seth & Smarinita Shetty
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Aruna Roy interview: ‘Free speech is the most important right eroded over the past seven years’
The social activist, who was a driving force behind the stir for the RTI Act and MGNREGA, explains what it takes to sustain a truly participatory movement.
Sneha Philip & Smarinita Shetty
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Global donors are focussing on oxygen shortage but India also needs help battling extreme hunger
Millions are suffering from hunger and lack of jobs.
Smarinita Shetty
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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‘My life hangs by a thread’: Activist Stan Swamy on Bhima Koregaon, Adivasi resistance in Jharkhand
Criminal justice procedures are being misused to repress undertrials in the state’s jails who are falsely accused of being Maoists.
Sneha Philip & Smarinita Shetty
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Are India’s rich really becoming more philanthropic? A close look at the numbers tells another story
The media is complicit in weaving tales around the Rise of philanthropy in India. But the gaping holes in data give us pause.
Smarinita Shetty