Ear to the ground
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Few people seem happy with BJP’s rule in Gujarat, yet the party still controls the state. Why?
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Urban planning: Why Gujarat’s cities are losing their fight against a changing climate
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Gujarat is battered by heat waves, floods, drought. How are its cities coping?
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‘Amul is now a Congress-mukt federation’: How BJP took control of India’s largest milk cooperative
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The Amul story: How politics is hurting the economics of Gujarat’s milk cooperatives
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The majoritarian project in Gujarat only serves the rich, says political scientist Ghanshyam Shah
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How palm oil from Malaysia fired the Patel agitation in Gujarat
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Why small businessmen in Gujarat are quitting industry and turning to financial speculation
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How GST is hurting small businesses in Surat’s textile hub – and spurring a black economy
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State wrap: Bihar is struggling with development while communal cracks grow wider
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Caste calculus: How the BJP is expanding its footprint in Bihar
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Fear and loathing in Chhapra: How a peaceful Bihar town became a communal tinderbox
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Beyond Surat’s GST strike: New technologies, Chinese imports are causing a churn in textile sector
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In Surat’s textile hub, small businesses are afraid of GST – but big companies are not
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What’s common between coaching classes in Bihar and its bahubali leaders?
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Bihar’s Nitish Kumar has been in power for 12 years. Why has he failed to change its fortunes?
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Bihar is struggling to improve the lives of the poor even after 27 years of backward caste rule
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Off beat: What the popularity of South Indian films in Bihar says about how the state is changing
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Work in progress: What Bihar’s changing village bazaars say about the state
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Bihar can’t even count how many dengue cases it has had, let alone fight the disease
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Lessons from Bihar’s 2016 dengue outbreak : Migration, poverty, garbage are spreading new diseases
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Cancer has exploded in Bihar as lakhs of people drink water poisoned with arsenic
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With falling standards in healthcare, education and employment, Tamil Nadu is losing its sheen
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Think Tamil Nadu has good public healthcare? It's hard to find it on the ground
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Tamil Nadu's healthcare numbers look good – but its people aren't getting healthier
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Tamil Nadu tried to reform its schools – but made them much worse
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Tamil Nadu’s schools are in crisis (but nobody is talking about it)
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‘No ideology, no political idea’: Hosur shows what happens when a society has been sedated
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These companies are changing the way labour is hired (and fired) in India
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Why Tamil Nadu is erecting cages around statues (hint: it's linked to caste)
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Sand mining in Tamil Nadu is incredibly destructive – but it's also unstoppable
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Think sand mining damages the ecology? It ruins politics as well
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Politicians aren't only messing with Tamil Nadu's water – they're making Rs 20,000 crore from sand
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Can the courts save India's rivers from pollution? Tirupur shows the answer is no
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How a river in Tamil Nadu turned into a sewage canal
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A tsunami of debt is building up in Tamil Nadu – and no one knows where it is headed
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Why Tamil Nadu's fisherfolk can no longer find fish
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No country for the poor: What we have learnt so far from Scroll's EarToTheGround project
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What we talk about when we talk about Punjab
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Why is Punjab increasingly turning to new gurus for comfort?
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How the Badals spread their control over Punjab (and why it is eroding)
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Every business in Punjab leads back to an Akali Dal leader (well almost)
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Has Punjab’s obsession with cancer robbed its poor of healthcare?
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Why Punjab's power bills include a cow cess and water charges
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Travel in Punjab and you are bound to run into jugaad
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Why is industry fleeing Punjab?
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Why farmers burn their fields in Punjab despite knowing that it worsens the fog over north India
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Why Odisha sees little protest despite the state's poor public services
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How Odisha squandered valuable mineral resources without any gains for its people
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Meet the Odisha MLA whose assets grew by 1,700% in five years
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How a contractor from Tamil Nadu carved out an enormous mining empire in Odisha
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Are India's public-sector ports being weakened to favour Adani Ports?
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What a primary school in Keonjhar tells us about Odisha's misplaced government spending
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Why Odisha’s empty engineering colleges hurt students and not their owners
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Why lakhs of people leave Odisha to work in distant, unsafe brick-kilns
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Why aren't more people travelling to see Odisha's stunning landscapes?
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Odisha's mining boom is over – and everyone is scrambling to cut their losses
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In Odisha, farmers are still growing food the hard way
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The mantra of mining companies: 'If you can't stop pollution, hide it'
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This boy-girl romance builds bridges between the North East and the South
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The Dongria Kondhs of Odisha now face a more formidable enemy than Vedanta
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Where Aishwarya Rai sells hair colour in Chinese
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Where pillars mark India's border with another country
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Delicately perched on hills, Mizoram's houses look beautiful. But are they safe?
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The Swachch Bharat campaign could do with some lessons from Mizoram
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In Mizoram, a fruit drink is sold in whisky bottles
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The Mizoram government spends so much on itself, it has little money for the people
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Scroll investigation: Mizoram CM gave road contracts to firm in which his brother held shares
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In violence-scarred Manipur, ancient scrolls show why AFSPA will not work
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Why children in Manipur are writing postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Travelling down the Kaladan highway
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A new gateway to the North East runs into – and jumps over – a corruption roadblock
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As centre changes fund-sharing formula, North East faces an unprecedented financial crisis
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Vegetable markets elsewhere in Mizoram
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How South Korea's soft power is changing Mizoram
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A walk in the Aizawl Bazaar
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As centre changes fund-sharing formula, North East faces an unprecedented financial crisis
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In Mizoram, Facebook groups take readers where newspapers fail to tread
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Seoul-stirring soaps in Aizawl: How South Korea’s soft power is changing Mizoram
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In Mizoram, Facebook groups take readers where newspapers fail to tread
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Why no one in Aizawl runs up a bill with neighbourhood panwallah
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The land of many changes
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Why medical workers are taking personal loans to keep Mizoram’s healthcare system running
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AIDS is about to explode in Mizoram and the Modi government is partly to blame
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Minority councils in the North East want direct funding but will that really help them develop?
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Why the BJP is gaining popularity in some parts of minority-dominated Mizoram
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How the Congress derailed a plan to stop Mizoram's farmers burning the forests
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Mizoram governor's sacking is BJP's latest misstep in a state it is trying to woo
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In a tiger reserve in Mizoram, camera traps are taking pictures of gunmen
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