The battle over Tata Sons is about leadership, control and a possible listing. But behind it lies a larger question: could changing Tata’s unusual ownership structure eventually change one of India’s oldest sources of patient philanthropic capital? Ten years ago, Bombay House was at war with its chairman. Cyrus Mistry’s removal in October 2016 triggered…
India’s digital transformation has expanded access to UPI, Aadhaar, DigiLocker and online welfare services, but millions remain excluded. Rural location, gender, caste, income and biometric authentication failures continue to shape who can truly benefit from Digital India.
India’s Jal Jeevan Mission has dramatically expanded rural tap water coverage since 2019, but the focus is now shifting from installing taps to ensuring reliable, safe, and uninterrupted water supply across villages.
Peepli Live remains one of India’s most powerful social satires, exposing the realities of farmer debt, media sensationalism, migration, and agrarian distress. Fifteen years later, its portrayal of rural hardship continues to reflect the ongoing crisis faced by India’s farming communities.
Haryana’s sex ratio has fallen to 910 despite years of government campaigns and CSR efforts, revealing that awareness alone has failed to address deep-rooted son preference. Real change requires tackling economic, legal, and social structures driving gender bias. A Number Nobody Wanted to Talk About Start with the arithmetic. Of the 516,402 children born in…
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha uses a simple love story to expose how lack of sanitation affects dignity, especially for women, turning a personal issue into a social conversation. It highlights that true love and progress begin when basic respect and dignity are no longer negotiable within the home. Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, released in 2017…
Women’s empowerment is not just about access but about agency, control, and decision-making. Across rural and urban India, true empowerment remains constrained by deeply rooted structural and social barriers. What if women’s empowerment is not about lifting women up rather about examining what has been holding them down? Who is being empowered? How? Under what…
This article explores how the collaboration between UNESCO and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology aims to make AI more inclusive in India. It highlights the urgent need to address data bias and ensure rural and informal workers are represented in digital systems. The Woman the Data Never Counted There is a woman in…
A Dalit Anganwadi worker, Kanchan Bai Meghwal, died after saving nearly 20 children during a deadly bee attack at a government school in Madhya Pradesh, highlighting courage, caste, and invisible frontline labour. A quiet government school day in Madhya Pradesh turned into a moment of extraordinary sacrifice when a sudden bee attack created chaos among…
Jharkhand is famously referred to as a state of plenty, with forests, minerals, and a huge population of rural and tribal inhabitants. However, under this prosperity, there is a crude reality of deprivation that defines the day-to-day living in its villages. The latest report by the Azim Premji University, Rural Multidimensional Deprivation in Jharkhand (2025)…
