Rural

The Medaram Jana Jatara is slowly being threatened by the process of sanskritization by the Hindutva forces.

The Budget this time is no different. It has repainted the same old loopholes with newer statistics and numerical allocations with tad bit of surges here and there.

The Keezhvenmani massacre has been part of left and Dalit discourses but remain forgotten in many mainstream platforms.

The plight of farm widows remains underreported due to lack of data, dearth of special focus on the gendered dimension of agrarian distress, policy paralysis and apathy of government.

We can extend the gains of more women having a bank account, to more women meaningfully using important financial services like insurance, credit, and the next frontier of cashless and mobile financial services.

Mausam Kumari of Rajauli Block village is one of many women who are busting period taboos and having difficult must-have conversations in villages of Bihar.

Mala travels for water, without knowing that her life is a one-dimensional fodder for people she doesn’t know, and probably never will.

From preparing the land, selecting seeds, transplanting the seedlings, applying manure/fertilisers/pesticides and then harvesting, winnowing and threshing, women work harder and longer than male farmers but are never recognised.

It is a well established fact that India, as a country preaches and tries, in several ways to instill a sense of...

The nurses are trying to address the issues we are facing because of the dearth of doctors and their unavailability in rural areas. They make primary healthcare services available as efficiently as doctors and are able to communicate more effectively in the local dialect as they belong to the same community.