-The Hindu The social activist whose new book on the RTI is just out, worries about the doublespeak in politics today, where rhetoric and substance never match The past couple of months have been hectic for Aruna Roy. The social activist and Magsaysay Award winner has been travelling across the country to promote her book, The RTI Story: Power to the People, which came out in April. After waiting more than a...
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Deprived mom, stunted child -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Poor diet and low education levels among women contribute to high levels of stunting among Indian children, nutrition researchers said on Friday after the first-ever district-level study of stunting nationwide. The study by the International Food Policy Research Institute has found that low body mass among women, low levels of education among women, and the diet of the children themselves are, in that order, the strongest factors influencing...
More »For the First Time in Years, Maharashtra's Drought-Affected Region Is Green -Varsha Torgalkar
-TheWire.in An annual watershed management contest by Paani Foundation has also helped create jobs and control migration in the region. Pune: “In this kharif season at the peak of summer, my two-acre farm is pretty green with crops – groundnuts, maize and fodder for animals. Since I came to this village after my Marriage in 2002, every summer would begin with waiting for water tankers to get water to drink and for...
More »The Invisible Majority -Vedeika Shekhar
-The Indian Express Women form 80 per cent of urban migrants, but public policy is blind to their concerns. A recent UN report says India is on the “brink of an urban revolution”, as its population in towns and cities are expected to reach 600 million by 2031. Fuelled by migration, megacities of India (Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata) will be among the largest urban concentrations in the world. Interestingly, the 2011 Census...
More »When politicians endorse child Marriage, you have to shout 'Beti bachao' -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth In a recent event, BJP MLA Gopal Parmar said that child Marriage is the solution to many problems like ‘love jihad’, elopement and divorce In the light of rampant child Marriages and related suffering of women in India, British India debated ‘Age of Consent Bill’ in 1880s when an 11-year-old Bengali girl, Phulmani, died after her husband had brutally raped her. Since then, India has crossed many milestones: getting...
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