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Poorly informed criticism undermines Kerala’s drive against ‘extreme poverty’

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. On 1 November 2025, the Government of Kerala announced that it has ended “extreme...

16.11.2025 2

R Ramakumar

In Andhra, dismantling village volunteers makes governance invisible in Adivasi areas

“The YSRCP government had deployed over 2.6 lakh volunteers without transparency and politicised the system. In contrast, the NDA dispensation is...

14.11.2025 30

Chakradhar Buddha

Cost of health: How Karnataka's PPP hospitals can shut out the poor from free treatment

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. It has been over 50 days since several groups in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district...

14.11.2025 2

Swathi S Balachandra

Children’s Day 2025: Why India must fund climate education like our future depends on it

Every Children’s Day, we celebrate the potential of young minds. But if we truly want to secure their future, we must ask what kind of world we are...

14.11.2025 1

Priyanka Thirumurthy

India’s gene-edited rice: Science needs sunlight, not spotlight

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. India adores a technological milestone, especially when it promises bumper...

11.11.2025 2

Sridhar Radhakrishnan

The poverty debate in Kerala: Why eradication is never the end of the story

After the Kerala government declared itself free from extreme poverty on November 1, poverty is back again in public discussion. Never before has...

11.11.2025 3

Cr Yadu

Nationwide SIR is a planned disenfranchisement of the poor and minorities

The Election Commission of India (ECI), despite a case still pending in the Supreme Court and despite strong opposition from political parties and...

06.11.2025 10

Shivasundar

'A benevolent dictator': How a former student remembers Mary Roy

I started writing this on September 1, after I devoured Arundhati Roy’s memoir. And then paused because I had to race to first write, then rewrite,...

06.11.2025 1

Indulekha Aravind

While they were sleeping: How Bengaluru's leaders missed the urban boom

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links. When I decided to move from Mumbai (then Bombay) to Bengaluru (then Bangalore) in...

02.11.2025 6

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