-Newsclick.in Godowns of co-operatives have run out of DAP, urea, and other fertilisers essential for Rabi sowing. Many farmers in or around Lalitpur have either died by suicide or from exhaustion in their desperate bid to procure few bags of the soil nutrient Lucknow: In the last one week or so, farmers in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh have reported a huge crunch of fertilisers at a time when the sowing...

-The New Indian Express More than eight decades after the Temple Entry Proclamation, the untouchables' cannot take the 18-step stairway to the temple or directly drop money in the offertory plate! SWARGA (Kasaragod): Shri Jatadhari 'Devasthanam' (abode of god) is nestled in the Middle of arecanut plantations of Brahmins. There is no motorable road to reach the centuries-old place of worship and devotees have to walk around 200m along the perennial Badiyar...

-Scroll.in The community feels the recent evictions are about communal politics, not land. Assamese Muslims agree. Manikajan Bibi is scared of losing her home. It is one windowless room built with tin sheets held together by wooden beams. In nervous anticipation, she has bundled this season’s harvest of rice into two sacks, her sarees in a fraying mud brown rexine bag. A rusty trunk holds everything else – mostly a bunch of...

-Scroll.in Young people from marginalised communities are building networks to challenge the upper-caste capture of academic and professional spaces. One day sometime in mid 2020, Aditi Priya, a Masters’ graduate in economics employed with a research organisation, messaged Disha Wadekar, a lawyer, on Facebook. Priya needed help with research she was conducting on the link between police presence and gender-based violence on women, particularly in marginalised communities. She felt Wadekar, as a...

-Newsclick.in In high and upper-Middle-income countries, around 20% of all employed are overeducated; the corresponding share for lower-Middle-income countries is around 12.5%, while in low-income countries it is less than 10%. Only half of the workers worldwide hold jobs corresponding to their level of education, according to a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The report pointed out that many people are working in jobs that do not match their...