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UNMENTIONABLES! SILENCE AND STIGMA, HYGIENE AND HEALTH

adminNovember 4, 2026November 4, 2026018 mins

The article examines the challenges of sanitation, menstrual hygiene and unequal access to clean toilets in India. Through personal accounts, community initiatives and policy developments, it highlights caste-based discrimination, poor sanitation infrastructure, menstrual stigma and the need for dignity, gender equality and sustainable sanitation systems. Modern civilisation has turned unproblematic natural phenomena into insurmountable problems….

The Saheli Network: How She Leads Bharat Is Turning Rural Women into India’s Newest Bankers

adminAugust 31, 2026August 31, 202607 mins

In large parts of rural India, the nearest bank branch can be an hour’s journey away, and women-owned small businesses, which make up a fifth of the country’s MSMEs, receive only a twentieth of the financing that public-sector banks provide. She Leads Bharat: Udyam set out to close that gap not by building more bank…

Where Are the Women? One Platform’s Answer to India’s Climate Leadership Gap

adminAugust 29, 2026August 29, 202607 mins

At the 29th UN Climate Conference in Baku, only 8 of the 78 world leaders present were women, i.e half as many as the year before. The gap is not unique to global summits. In India’s own climate and clean energy sector, women remain strikingly underrepresented in leadership roles, even though women and girls make…

The Boy Who Asked His Mother Why Periods Were a Secret Is Now Reaching Two Lakh Women

adminAugust 29, 2026August 29, 202607 mins

Sandy Khanda was 12 years old, growing up in a farming family in Khanda village, Haryana, when a classmate got her first period in the middle of class. The boys around her didn’t understand what was happening and mocked her, assuming, wrongly, that sex had caused the bleeding. That evening, young Sandy went home with…

THE LONG LEAP What Uunchai Teaches Us About Growing Old in Today’s World

adminAugust 29, 2026016 mins

On August 21, the world observes International Senior Citizens Day. It is not the kind of occasion that usually dominates headlines. There are no grand celebrations attached to it, no constant reminders on television or social media. It often passes quietly. And perhaps that is precisely why it matters. India is home to over 150…

Two Hours a Night: How Dalit Women in Telangana Built India’s First Community Radio

adminAugust 28, 2026August 28, 202607 mins

Sangham Radio has given rural Dalit women in Telangana a platform to tell their own stories, share essential information and strengthen community voices. But years of financial uncertainty threaten a station that has become vital to hundreds of villages.

FROM DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND TO DEMOGRAPHIC AGEING:

adminAugust 18, 2026August 18, 2026020 mins

Is India Ready for the Silver Economy? India’s growth journey has been driven by the youth. Today, the same population curve that issupposed to bring a demographic dividend is curving towards the less tumultuous sibling of a demographic dividend — a Demographic Tax. Now the problem for policy makers, employers and investors is not if…

INDIA’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Revisiting the Senior Citizens Act

adminAugust 17, 2026August 17, 2026013 mins

Nearly two decades after Parliament passed India’s only Law specifically for older people, the bill’s fundamental flaws continue to lie unresolved as the judiciary strains the existing legislation to bridge them – a new bill to correct these issues has been pending in Parliament since 2019. India’s population of individuals aged 60 and above was…

India’s Women at Work: Record Numbers, Mixed Reality

adminAugust 8, 2026August 8, 202607 mins

India has witnessed a significant rise in Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR) over the past several years, reflecting notable changes in women’s engagement with the labour market. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), the FLFPR increased from 23.3% in 2017-18 to 41.7% in 2023-24, representing one of the fastest increases among developing…

Extreme Heat and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Look at Global and Indian Contexts

adminJuly 29, 2026July 29, 202609 mins

Eighty-one-year-old Felisa Cuc walks the path to her home in rural Sepur Zarco, Guatemala, trying to outrun the heat. Thousands of kilometres away, in a district in Rajasthan, another woman leaves before sunrise to fetch water, hoping to finish the walk before the day’s heat becomes unbearable. Neither woman set the thermostat on the planet….