-Newsclick.in Mewat is a living example of how Haryana government has failed to look at malnutrition amongst adolescent girls as a socio-economic problem. Neha Dixit reports "Her father needed money for installing a tube well in the fields, we had no option," says Afra. She is the mother of Humra, 15, who passed away in the Punhana block of Mewat district in Haryana on September 22nd. She bled to death while delivering...
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Where have all the women gone? -Vani S Kulkarni, Manoj K Pandey and Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu Overcoming son preference in India remains a daunting challenge as even educated women are prone to it Have women fared better than men, and girls better than boys in the last decade or so? In the din over a dramatic reduction in poverty in the period 2009/10-2011/12 that is unlikely to die down, deep questions about the discrimination and deprivation that women face from the womb to the rest of...
More »Birth of a state: Who prospers, mother or daughter? -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India Almost 57 years after it was carved out by merging Telugu-speaking areas and cutting out Marathi and Kannada speaking areas, Andhra Pradesh is now on the carving board again - the Telangana region will now be partitioned off into a new state, induced by a long-standing agitation, but delivered by the political expediency of the Congress. Whatever be the complex electoral implications of this, the real question is...
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-Outlook Social indices topper Kerala just can't stop the baby deaths in its malnutrition-hit tribal Attapady belt Under the thick canopy of a peepal tree, beside the road that winds to Pallur Ooru in Attapady in the Western Ghats, is a small tribal burial ground. There are no tombstones to mark the graves and on closer look one sees tiny mounds where the mud has been disturbed. In a quiet corner,...
More »Plan panel to pick holes in Narendra Modi's growth model
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The UPA is ready with facts and figures to counter Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's growth model when he comes to the Planning Commission to discuss the state's annual plan for 2013-14 on Tuesday. The UPA attack is expected to focus around claims that Modi's growth model is not inclusive as revealed by social indicators. This will be Modi's first official meeting at the Centre after his...
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