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Minding Their Business
The unfinished battle for sex workers’ rights
Death By A Thousand Cuts
Why the relief package will not undo the lockdown’s destruction of the MSMEs
Out of Breath
The lives of manual scavengers in Tamil Nadu
The Central Problem
How the union government is undermining states’ fight against COVID-19
Troubling Symptoms
The COVID-19 pandemic could help create a dystopian surveillance regime
REPORTAGE
A report on the operations of Apne Aap, an antitrafficking NGO, in Forbesganj and Kolkata
Into the Forest
An Adivasi village forages for survival during the COVID-19 lockdown
State of Denial
Britain’s COVID-19 response reveals the last gasps of its welfare state
Internal Matters
How the Modi government deflects international censure
A Baroque Urbanism
Telling stories with buildings in Dhaka and Karachi
The Long Arm of Hunger
History suggests deprivation will be an ally to COVID-19, and both must be stopped
THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST
Witnesses remember the Bengal famine 77 years later
Prison Outbreak
How India is endangering vulnerable prisoners amid the COVID-19 pandemic
False Steps
The commercial roots of a “traditional” folk dance / Arts
VOICES OF REASON
The rationalists fighting superstition amid growing threats of violence
Streets Behind
Rome’s homeless population bears the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic
Dalit Rhapsody
An anti-caste collective challenges oppression through music / Arts
Lessons Not Learnt
The World Bank’s disturbing push to privatise Indian education
BLIND SPOTS
Caste in contemporary Muslim autobiographies
Bitter Harvest
Farmers suffer under the coronavirus lockdown / Agriculture
False Steps
The commercial roots of a “traditional” folk dance / Arts
Streets Behind
Rome’s homeless population bears the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic / Communities
VOICES OF REASON
The rationalists fighting superstition amid growing threats of violence
Prison Outbreak
How India is endangering vulnerable prisoners amid the COVID-19 pandemic / Law
The Long Arm of Hunger
History suggests deprivation will be an ally to COVID-19, and both must be stopped / Health
The Forgotten Holocaust
Witnesses remember the Bengal famine 77 years later
Lessons Not Learnt
The World Bank’s disturbing push to privatise Indian education / Education
Dalit Rhapsody
An anti-caste collective challenges oppression through music / Arts
BLIND SPOTS
Caste in contemporary Muslim autobiographies
Bitter Harvest
Farmers suffer under the coronavirus lockdown / Agriculture