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A Telling Winter in Delhi: Banishing Dogs, Ignoring Air Pollution | Preeti Chauhan

Preeti Chauhan — 2026-02-15T09:30:18Z

As the winter set in Delhi so did the smog, like every year for past many years though this year seems to be the longest and worst in terms of the AQI. The smog is more stubborn, the haze too visible and black to be ignored, it now can even be seen and felt indoors. Photos clicked by our phones capture the haze-depicting the pervasiveness of air pollution in Delhi. The Govt. response seem far too little and late to deal with Delhi

- 2026

Of Education and Democracy in India: Linkages with Proposed Four Year Undergraudate Programme in Delhi University

Preeti Chauhan — 2013-06-15T18:00:10Z

Now that the cat is out of the bag and finally the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) is being criticised and thereby being discussed by some of the leading scholars of the country, one needs to also think of its relationship with the current state of democracy in India. The manner in which the FYUP is being pushed through in the Delhi University crushes the very idea of a university and with it the ideals and ideas of democracy.
Even if one assumes and believes that the Academic (…)

- 2013

Anna Hazare's Protest: Some Reflections on Law-Making, Parliament and Democracy in India

Preeti Chauhan — 2011-09-06T16:33:13Z

Anna Hazare's protest raises many other important issues than just the issue of a Jan Lokpal. There can be very serious differences on how best to tackle corruption, a powerful law being just one part of it. But what must be seriously discussed, debated and analysed thoroughly are the many questions regarding democracy in India that this protest and the attack on it has thrown up.
One of the major premises of the government's or rather the ruling elite's attack on Anna Hazare's campaign (…)

- 2011

In the Land of Gandhi....

Preeti Chauhan — 2010-02-08T07:07:11Z

(This article was sent on January 4, 2010. We are publishing it in view of the validity of its essential contents. —Editor)
Himanshu Kumar, a Gandhian working amongst the adivasis of Dantewada is sitting on an indefinite fast since December 26, 2009. He had planned a padayatra beginning December 14, 2009, followed by a satyagraha, finally culminating in a jan sunwai (public hearing). He was denied permission to do the padayatra and hold satyagraha in Dantewada for the SP of Dantewada felt (…)

- 2010