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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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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?