India has the world’s largest youth population, with nearly two-thirds of us under 35. We repeat that statistic often, and we usually stop there. The other half of it is that India is ageing faster than at any point in its history. Indians above sixty numbered 14.9 crore in 2022 and will reach ≈ 35…
NAMASTE scheme data show rising PPE, insurance and vehicle-subsidy numbers even as rights groups say official sewer-death figures undercount fatalities NEW DELHI — The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE) said on September 13 that 90,942 sewer and septic tank workers have been profiled nationwide under its flagship sanitation-worker safety programme, with 89,248…
There are easier CSR initiatives than educating girls in India. You can build a toilet, install solar panels, plant trees, and satisfy before-and-after photographs and clear completion dates. Anand Mahindra chose something harder in 1996. He committed the Mahindra Group to ensuring that girls from the most economically disadvantaged communities would complete 10 years of…
The Wall Street Journal called him the Henry Ford of heart surgery. Harvard Business School made his hospital a case study. The World Economic Forum recognised his model as transformational for global healthcare. But the number that matters most in Dr Devi Prasad Shetty’s story is not any of these recognitions. It is ₹95,000. That…
As legal adoptions rise, child rights advocates warn illegal placements still exploit gaps in oversight — with India’s most vulnerable children bearing the greatest risk. New Delhi’s Secretariat hosted nearly 200 representatives from hospitals, police departments, Child Welfare Committees, and grassroots health workers on September 10 at a government-led workshop aimed at closing the gaps…
Kantabai was a welder in Mhaswad, Maharashtra. She wanted to open a savings account. Every bank she approached turned her away. Only because she didn’t have documents, or a husband’s signature, address proof, or a transaction history that a city-designed banking system recognised as valid. Her story reached Chetna Gala Sinha, a social activist then…
She was 18, a college student in Mumbai, when she first walked into the city’s slums to teach. There was no organisation behind it, no fellowship, no grant. Just a young woman who had grown up in India and abroad and could not reconcile the world she had been given with the one child in…
On September 12, 2026, at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, the leaders of the eleven-member BRICS grouping adopted, by consensus, a 140-paragraph document titled “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability,” known as the New Delhi Declaration. Published at the end of the 18th BRICS Summit, hosted by India, it is the grouping’s most…
He had exactly 67 pieces of cloth when Anshu Gupta left his journalism career in 1999, and started Goonj with his wife Meenakshi in a single room in Delhi. Urban India discards enormous amounts of usable material that rural India desperately needs. Rerouting those materials seemed like charity; hence, Gupta believed it would strip recipients…
On 17th March 2026, President Droupadi Murmu arrived at Rashtrapati Bhavan for an unusual ceremony. She was there to mark a number: 5 billion. The Akshaya Patra Foundation has served many mid-day meals to schoolchildren since its founding in Bengaluru in 2000, 1,500 children, 5 schools, and 1 kitchen. The journey has travelled from 1,500…
