poverty

Why Indian Politics Is Anti-Wealth

S Prasannarajan

The pornography of poverty is the aesthetic of the desperate populist. And there is no place more rewarding than India for him. Pornography sells, and when poverty is marketed as wretchedness over which we have no control, it sells more

Life, Liberty and Luxury for All

Aresh Shirali

Can a luxury market boom do starving Indians a good turn? It may just be possible in a few years

A Fistful of Rice

Anil Budur Lulla

This is what it takes to end starvation deaths in Andhra’s poverty-ridden Warangal district

Samaritan Students

Jaideep Mazumdar

Six teenagers in Murshidabad are giving all they can to teach children from extremely poor families. A voluntary mission that has a lesson for everyone.

Collateral Damage, You Say?

Paromita Vohra

What the inexorable march towards the creation of a global village is leaving in its wake.

My Migrant Soul

Open

A look at the benighted fate of migrant labour who fall so easily for the lure of a better paying foreign job.

Look Who’s Not Poor

Shubhangi Swarup

If the purpose of the Poverty Line is to make India look less miserable on paper, the Government might as well pull random numbers out of a hat and call them statistics