-The Times of India NEW DELHI: About 79% of women aged 15 to 49 and 78% of men in the 15-54 age group in India want to have at least one daughter, according to recently released National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data. Interestingly, men and women from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Muslims, rural people and those from the lower rungs of the economic ladder are keener to have a daughter....
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India: Unchecked Attacks on Religious Minorities
-Human Rights Watch Reform Laws Choking Freedom of Expression, Association New York: The Indian government failed to stop or credibly investigate vigilante attacks against minority religious communities during 2017, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing its World Report 2018. Many senior leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) publicly promoted Hindu supremacy and ultra-nationalism at the expense of fundamental rights for all Indians. Extremist Hindu groups, many claiming to be affiliated...
More »Hindus or Muslims, rich or poor: Who has the highest fertility rate?
-TimesNowNews.com New Delhi: The total fertility rate among women- which indicates the total number of childer born to a woman during her lifetime- (15-49) has dipped below replacement other than Hindus and Muslims- it has emerged. The fertility rate of Hindu households is 2.1 declining from 2.8 in the last survey in 2004-05, a level at which a population is said to be able to replace itself from generation to generation without...
More »The silent segregation of Muslim students in Bhopal's schools -Nazia Erum
-ThePrint.in In many schools of Bhopal, students are being put in classes based on the language they choose to study, but that has other consequences. Nazia Erum explains in this excerpt from her book ‘Mothering A Muslim’. Sanskrit is offered across most of India as an elective third language. Students can opt for it or a regional language or a foreign language. When it’s time for the elective language class, the students...
More »By mostly jailing Dalits, Muslims & tribals, India is making the same mistakes as the US -Devesh Kapur
-ThePrint.in While the US exemplifies the effect of discriminatory enforcement in an unequal society, a weak state and low conviction rates in India are complicit in the failure to stem the violence against marginalised groups. It is virtually an axiom in development circles to say that the rule of law is necessary for a country’s economic development and advancing accountability and justice. Proponents of the former emphasise the importance of rule of...
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