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Nishant Gokhale
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What the Crime Records Bureau’s data says about conditions in India’s prisons (and what it doesn’t)
Prison Statistics India 2016, published in April after a long, unexplained delay, omits details about caste and religious identities of the prison population.
Nishant Gokhale
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Proposal to change name of Indian Forest Service may escalate a simmering inter-ministerial turf war
The debate over rights for forest communities has for long divided the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Ministry of Forests.
Nishant Gokhale
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Will the Maharashtra plastic ban choke on its reliance on criminal penalties?
Criminal sanctions are expensive, time consuming and tend to target those least able to defend themselves.
Nishant Gokhale
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Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl: A marriage that defied the Third Reich
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An 18th-century letter to Bombay shows what it was like to be in service of the East India Company
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In Godhra, Bilkis Bano convicts felicitated by RSS member soon after their release
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How the trauma of Partition survivors has been intensified by India-Pakistan animosity
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First synthetic embryos grown by scientists raise serious ethical questions