Entertainment in the form of film, theatre, and television has, since time immemorial, influenced the ways in which humans think and society behaves. Often, this happens inadvertently and depends significantly…
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Why India’s female labour force participation rate remains low compared to global levels, and what needs to be done to change it.
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Despite availing schemes such as the PMJDY, women from low-income households are hesitant to save formally with banks. What can help their outlook change?
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India is home to over 350 million working-age women, of which 128 million live in urban areas. Yet only 20% of working-age urban women are participating in the workforce. Increasing…
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Lessons from a nonprofit’s attempts to change systems that impact children with developmental disabilities.
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Advocacy to consider climate change as a human rights issue is incomplete unless interlinked with disability rights and mental health.
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As climate change raises the risk of glacial lake outburst floods, downstream Nepal is seeking better warnings.
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Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel describe how India could make progress towards meeting its climate change mitigation commitments which involve achieving net zero emissions by 2070.
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The challenges of a global pandemic and inchoate racial reckoning provide the opportunity to expand our definitions of philanthropy.
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Does the ‘development discourse’ ignore women? No. Not today. It certainly does not ‘ignore’ women. In fact, the development narrative casts its gaze evenly across a range of women, homogenises…
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India is urbanising rapidly. According to the World Bank, approximately 35 percent of the country’s population lives in urban areas. This figure is expected to increase—projections by the UN indicate that by…
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Child brides being beaten by their husbands will no longer be included in India’s biggest survey of domestic violence — potentially hiding the problem and making it even harder for…