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Property: Daughter has share but father has will -Manoj Mitta

-The Times of India Despite a historic amendment in 2005, the Hindu inheritance law still suffers from gender bias. It is 10 years since the daughter has been brought on a par with the son under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (HSA). This historic amendment of 2005 never made much of a splash though, unlike other farreaching enactments of the same year such as RTI, NREGA and even the domestic violence law. The...

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Unfinished work of equality -Govardhan Wankhede

-The Indian Express To improve the educational status of Scheduled Castes, a fresh understanding of their achievements and challenges is necessary. The concern of scholars, planners and policymakers has been to achieve the goals set in our Constitution: equality, justice and equal opportunity for all. However, in the period after Independence, it was revealed that education was not necessarily linked to social and economic development and the majority of Indians continued...

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Taking a Movement Forward -Khadeeja Amenda

-The New Indian Express HYDERABAD: When Gummadi Prabhakar went back to his village in Nellore, he went for his usual stroll in the fields. Amidst the familiar bird chirp, crunch of leaves under his feet and smell of earth, Prabhakar heard the happy tune – music that fill his ears only when he visits home. A realisation stuck him – he should compile these songs. This is how dalitsong.com, one its...

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Nature-based farming need of the hour, says expert

-The Hindu VISAKHAPATNAM: Most of the problems causing the agrarian crisis in the country can be solved by reverting to nature-based farming, says expert Subhash Palekar. A two-day workshop on nature-based farming and zero-budget farming would be conducted for farmers of the North Andhra districts at AU Ambedkar Assembly Hall here from Monday, Mr. Palekar told media here on Sunday. The Green Revolution had increased the cost of agricultural production as farmers were...

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Vidarbha farmers bear beasts of burden -Omar Rashid

-The Hindu After beef ban, no buyers for old bullocks. AMRAVATI: For the fourth week in a row, Balu Bhalve has returned home dejected. In the sweltering heat, the debt-ridden farmer travelled more than 15 km from his village to sell a pair of old bullocks at Badnera Mandi here on Friday. But the cattle market, abuzz on the weekly auction day even two months ago, presents a grim picture now. Even after...

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