News: Recently, Pew research Survey highlighted India’s low female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) and few reasons behind that. FLFPR has worsened with the slowing of the Indian economy before the pandemic came. an FLFPR of 33.1 per cent in 2011-12 slipped to 25.3 in 2017-18, coinciding with a 45-year high in unemployment, and further… Continue reading Women and Indian society
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Prisoner of Gender
News: According to a recent Pew Survey, 79% of men and 82% women in India agree that it is very important for women to have the same rights as men. However, the anomaly is that this rarely translated into specific behaviours, relationships, freedoms. How different surveys highlight the discriminatory attitudes towards women in India? India… Continue reading Prisoner of Gender
Education should be priority, not banning of hijab
News: Face coverings with varying levels of restrictions are a fact of life for 58% of Hindus and 88% of Muslim women in India. Imposing them on young girls in educational institutions seems particularly worrisome. This is the reason educational authorities chose to ban the hijab in educational institutes. Read here: The interpretative answer to… Continue reading Education should be priority, not banning of hijab
India needs a refugee and asylum law
News: Recently, private members bill proposing the enactment of refugees and asylum law was introduced in Lok Sabha. The bill lays down comprehensive criteria for recognizing asylum seekers and refugees. It also prescribes specific rights and duties occurring from such status. Read here: Refugee, asylum-seeker, and international migrant What are recent examples which show there is… Continue reading India needs a refugee and asylum law
Our Gender Gap in Contraception needs public policy intervention
News The recently-released fifth round of our National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-5) highlights that there has been a more than 10 percentage-point increase in the use of contraception among currently married women aged 15-49 years. However, it also highlights that female sterilization continues to be the most popular choice of contraception despite the availability… Continue reading Our Gender Gap in Contraception needs public policy intervention
‘Enmity Will Be With Your Kin Or Your Neighbour’
News: Historian Shruti Kapila explores the role of violence in 20th-century Indian political ideas in her book ‘Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought In The Global Age’. How India is different from the West on violence? The history of the west shows that the state was the legitimate author of violence. But the Indian story is different.… Continue reading ‘Enmity Will Be With Your Kin Or Your Neighbour’
FM call for paradigm change in urban planning ‘opportunity of a lifetime’: Experts
News: On emphasizing urban planning, Finance Minister (FM) said when India will celebrate its 100th Independence Day, nearly half the population would be in urban areas. Must read: Union Budget 2022-23: Highlights, tax proposals, concerns – Explained, pointwise Contents1 What is the announcement on urban planning from budget 2022-23?2 What is the need for urban planning?3… Continue reading FM call for paradigm change in urban planning ‘opportunity of a lifetime’: Experts
Mahatma Gandhi, the out-of-the-box thinker
News: Mahatma Gandhi is an important figure of history, whose thinking and qualities offer us a lot of things to learn from him. What are the qualities of Mahatma Gandhi? Out of box thinker: Mahatma Gandhi understood categories of people and identified himself with the weakest. His concept of just and truthful politics stressed that the weakest… Continue reading Mahatma Gandhi, the out-of-the-box thinker
Remembering the Holocaust
News: United Nations marked 27th January every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Contents1 What is International Holocaust Remembrance Day?2 Why there is a need to remember the holocaust?3 Why India’s youth is vulnerable to hate speech and racial ideologies?4 What steps did world countries initiate to educate students about the holocaust?5 What should be the… Continue reading Remembering the Holocaust
Bose’s legacy
News Government has decided to place a statue of Subash Chandra Bose at India Gate. occupying a prominent place in the upcoming administrative complex will serve as a daily reminder of Bose’s core political beliefs to citizens. What were the basic political ideas that Subash Chandra Bose believed in? He was attracted to military discipline. At the 1928… Continue reading Bose’s legacy
