Facts About Poverty in India: Progress and Challenges
By Isha Kakar India’s economic power is growing at unprecedented rates. However, despite being one of the world’s fastest growing economies, India has a long way […]
Poverty & Hunger
Thousands of Indians die of hunger every day
By Vaidehi Three girls — aged eight, four and two years recently died in Delhi after succumbing to starvation. These children had died of malnourishment. […]
Here are 5 things you can do to solve world hunger
Ironically, the world produces more than enough food to feed the planet’s population but people are still dying because of hunger. In India, around 21.25 […]
Is malnutrition in India a gender problem?
By Dr. Rita Prasad One in every three children in India is under-nourished. While the notorious levels of child malnutrition is a well-recognised fact in […]
Growth at 8.2%, Yet All Is Not Well in India’s Unorganised Sector
By Arun Kumar The way we estimate growth in the unorganised sector should have changed after demonetisation, but it didn’t. The assumptions of the old methodology […]
Emerson’s Emancipation and Changing Status of US Women
By BIBHUTI PATI In 1965 over five million young Americans were attending colleges or universities. Similarly, the period between 1890’s and 1900’s brought in great […]
Nutrition and livelihoods: A weapon that can kill two birds — hunger and rural poverty
A proposed scheme for inclusion of milk in the National Mid-Day Meal programme and delivering it to 10 crore schoolchildren. By BM Vyas & Manu […]
Journey of India from 1947 to 2018
By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra India is observing the 71 years of independence today. Since Independence, India has witnessed many changes, vicissitudes in the political and socio-economic […]
Why perhaps, marginal has to suffer?
By Nikita Gandotra “If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‘what are we going to do?’ But if people die of […]
Independent India – Leading the Road to Progress
“Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.” As India celebrates its momentous 72 Independence Day, the above words of […]