The activist and politician's commitment to the working class and peasantry was undiminished.

Through the reports of the National Commission for Farmers, the agricultural scientists proposed that we measure growth in agriculture in terms of growth of farmers’ income and not merely increased output.

One of the last fighters from that fast vanishing generation of those who fought for India’s freedom has passed away at his home in Purulia district, West Bengal.

Alas, the consequences these days for journalists doing such stories can be serious. Even for those doing straight reporting. Siddique Kappan, arrested en route to Hathras to meet the family of the gang-rape victim, has languished in jail for over a year now, unable to get bail.

The repeal of the three farm laws came about not because the PM failed to ‘persuade’ some farmers, but because many farmers stood resolute, even as a craven media devalued their struggle and strength.

In a year the GDP contracted 7.7%, as we brace for another round of ‘reverse’ migrations and as farmers wait unheeded at the gates of Delhi, Indian billionaires reached record levels of wealth.

In his foreword to Kavitha Iyer's book 'Landscapes of Loss', P. Sainath writes about the commodification of water and the thriving 'thirst economy' in the Marathwada region.

It’s an astonishing achievement of this government that it has united a huge and unlikely spectrum of social forces, including some traditional adversaries.

The laws contain among the most sweeping exclusions of a citizen’s right to legal recourse in any law outside of the Emergency of 1975-77.

Most of the elements of the ‘package’ that the Union finance minister announced are sums allocated for schemes already in existence.

The electoral system and process is broken, we need to fix it. The media are the lapdogs of power, we need to democratise them.

Their determination outstrips the devastation. Savaged by the August floods, facing a looming drought, the women of Kudumbashree’s pathbreaking group farms are rebuilding, using solidarity as a strategy.

Hausabai Patil, now 91, was with the revolutionary underground that carried out audacious attacks on British offices, and looted armouries, buses and police stations in the Satara region in Maharashtra from 1943-46.

"There is freedom in cycling. We are not dependent on anyone now. I can never give this up.”

The forces behind her assassins have a list – and want us to know they will pursue it.

These pictures were shot before the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. However, even now you find young girls doing such backbreaking work in these areas.

As demonetisation woes deepen, an Osmanabad bank does little to recover Rs 352 crores owed by two sugar factories, but threatens 20,000 farmers who owe it Rs 180 crores with public humiliation.

At 94, a forgotten hero of India’s struggle for freedom returns to the scene of his most daring exploit in the anti-British Raj uprising that saw a parallel government established in Satara, Maharashtra, in 1943.