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Why public employment is crucial for a healthy, equitable society Greater public employment ensures better deliver of public services to citizens. A municipal worker sprays disinfectants outside the Central Reserve Police Force building in Delhi. | PTI This is an excerpt from the sixth edition of the India Exclusion Report, a collaborative effort involving institutions and individuals working with a shared notion of social and economic equity, justice and rights. The report seeks to inform public opinion around exclusion and the role of the state and to influence policy-ma...

 2 The dominance of bureaucrats in the information commission can lead you to conflict of interest situations as, when they become information commissioners, they hail from the same background and share the same mindset as that of the public authorities that come under the RTI Act and so would like to protect them and are likely not to disseminate information, said Indira Jaising, senior advocate of the Supreme Court.    She also said the lethargy in the appointment of information commissioners has much to do with the lack of political will.     Comparing it to the appointments o...

Jing Wei for NPR toggle caption Jing Wei for NPR The question of what to call the "developing world" is a developing debate. Jing Wei for NPR When an armed mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and took over the building on Wednesday, many Americans said that's what happens in "Third World" countries. TV journalists and pundits said it. As did people on social media. Everyone knows what they meant — countries that are poor, where health care systems are weak, where democracy may not be exactly flourishing. But the very term "Third World" is a problem. "I feel ...

The question of what to call "the developing world" is a developing debate. When an armed mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and took over the building on Wednesday, many Americans said that's what happens in "third world" countries. TV journalists and pundits said it. As did people on social media. Everyone knows what they meant — countries that are poor, where health care systems are weak, where democracy may not be exactly flourishing. But the very term "third world" is a problem. "I feel like it connotes this superiority and inferiority," says Ngozi Erondu, senior scholar at the O'Neill Inst...

In Ahmedabad’s Juhapura, exploring the paradoxes of Muslim ghettoisation Perplexing features of the area’s political economy are not separate from Gujarat’s long history of Hindu nationalism. A Muslim resident walks past overflowing open sewage in the Juhapura area of Ahmedabad. | Sam Panthaky/AFP This is an excerpt from the upcoming sixth edition of the India Exclusion Report, a collaborative effort involving institutions and individuals working with a shared notion of social and economic equity, justice and rights. The report seeks to inform public opinion around ...