This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. School closures due to the nationwide lockdown in March 2020 meant that children were disengaged with formal education for a prolonged period. The resulting talks around e-education exposed India’s digital…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is often said that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but justice. Evidence shows that enabling access to justice has a disproportionate impact on a country’s economic development and on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The powerful role of business in India’s development cannot be denied. In fact, the story of India’s businesses has always been closely intertwined with the country’s socio-economic history. For instance,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dipak Basu describes India’s Ganges Delta as “a very beautiful place full of mangroves and forests and tigers and king cobras and whatnot—and a whole lot of very poor people.”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even if you have never consciously engaged in charity, you were most likely still a part of some charity project anyway. In today’s world — at least in its prosperous…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When women at a Sri Lankan garment factory started to develop coughs and fevers, few took it seriously — the South Asian island had few cases of the coronavirus and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The need for nonprofit programmes to incorporate smart, simple, and effective technology is increasing. However, more often than not, organisations in the sector struggle to find the right solution, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ketika Kapoor, founder of the social enterprise ProEves, set out to empower mothers working in India’s corporate sector. By training childcare providers, counseling parents, sensitizing corporate managers, conducting research, and advocating…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seven in 10 of the 478,600 people in prison in Indian jails are under trial, according to the 2019 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data on prisons released in August 2020. Only 14 countries in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As of 2019, about 2.7 million Indian immigrants resided in the United States. Today, Indian immigrants account for approximately 6 percent of the U.S. foreign-born population, making them the second-largest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even as COVID-19 lays bare deeply entrenched structural inequalities in relation to gender norms, its true impact is still unknown. What we do know is that girls’ lives have forever…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shaheen Mistri is the founder and CEO of Teach For India, an education-focused nonprofit that gets graduates and young professionals to teach children from marginalised communities. Previously, Shaheen founded and led…