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Always on the move: The troubling landscape of the right to education for migrant children in India April 19, 2021, 7:04 PM IST The Supreme Court of India, on April 13, 2021 has directed all the states to inform the court about the number and status of migrant children in India and directed the protection of their fundamental rights during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in India. Unsurprisingly, it took us more than a year into the pandemic to take note of the situation of one of the most marginalized categories of children in India. While the first wave of the pandemic shook ...

by Akshita Rawat The Yamuna has a longstanding history with the city of Delhi. The Yamuna is not only historically and culturally significant to Delhi, which developed on the banks of the river, but also central to the national capital’s visual imagination. It has been a source of life for thousands of years, providing drinking water, resources for food, livelihood, and even a breeding ground for many aquatic organisms. However, under pressure from forces of ‘development’, the river has been heavily exploited, becoming a dumping ground for anything the city cannot ...

(Photo: Goethe Institute/ Supplied) A reckoning is happening, a willingness, like none before, for the former colonial powers, both those who sat at the Berlin conference, and those who benefited indirectly, to acknowledge the past, what was taken and what needs to be returned.   In 2015, Germany made a conditional acknowledgement, a decade after offering an initial apology for the 100 year anniversary of the Namibian Genocide of 1904-1904  , as documented in its own records. The question of reparations remains unsettled. The atrocities committed during this period, in...