Perspectives

Policy Edits.

Policy Editorials.

From pondering to coffee procurement — navigating self-doubt, power and people’s desires in BRT

Can injustices cultured over decades be mended through practices as simple as trading fairly?

The first man to grow coffee

The homestead is spontaneously managed —the poop of loitering goats is piled up at the base of coffee plants  to remedy pesky beetles.

Swaraj at 70: The concept of aazadi is no longer enough

... to explore the state of Swaraj at 70 - in finance, politics, agriculture, human rights, food sovereignty, culture, conflict resolution.

Museums as learning spaces

Museums can facilitate discussions on, say, how forests and their resources were put to use during earlier times.

Silent Valley: A controversy that focused global attention on a rainforest 40 years ago

The confrontation between development and environment; a people’s movement that got support from across the country

How to sponge off family and relatives and be appreciated for it

"Between 16 and 40 years of age, to live is to do the things you love with the people you want to be with; whatever you do, don’t get a job."

The Neoliberalisation of Education and its Alternatives

A space free from school pressure, expectations to ‘perform well,’ need to permanently prove one’s ‘knowledge’ and free from teachers

Most revered patriarch – When eleven young women from Bengal took on Gandhi

In confronting the greatest living Indian, in exposing a Mahatma's prejudices, 11 young women displayed an admirable independence of mind.

Anyone with half an acre of land can start natural farming

Studies have shown that using this method the yield goes up over a period of time.