-Livemint.com The banking system’s y-o-y deposit growth had slowed to 8.62% by August from about 10% at start of FY22 It is a foregone conclusion that the covid-19 pandemic forced Indians to save more by curtailing the opportunities to spend in FY21. This has stretched to the current financial year because of the second wave of the pandemic. However, a look at the ownership pattern of bank deposits reveals some interesting nuggets. Please...
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Local initiatives are spreading the magic of public libraries across rural Karnataka -Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta
-The Hindu With children out of school, rural Karnataka is reviving free libraries and creating new ones — with book racks, furniture, Posters, work tables and computers I love libraries. I love everything about them — the hush, the slowly spinning blades of the ceiling fan, the sunlight spilling in from tall windows, the magazines lying open on polished wooden tables, the readers slumped over books, taking notes, the rows and endless...
More »Post-COVID, Female-Headed Households Are Left to Battle Paperwork and a Sexist System -Tarushi Aswani
-TheWire.in Women who have found themselves in charge of a family after the sudden deaths of family members find rules, regulations and laws making mockery of their situation. New Delhi: “He died months ago but the government reminds us of our loss everyday,” says Dipanwita Das, who lost her husband on April 25, 2021, at the height of the second wave of COVID-19. Das admitted her husband to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital as...
More »The dark underbelly of Punjab’s liquor problem -Srishti Jaswal
-Scroll.in Over 100 people died after consuming illicit liquor in 2020. The police have implicated two brothers, but the trade runs deep in the state’s political economy. On the night of June 23, 2021, the sounds of qawwali rang out from a Sufi shrine in Dhotian, a village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district. The brutal second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t yet receded, but hundreds were in attendance at the shrine,...
More »Returning to school 17 months later -Krishna Kumar
-The Hindu The Post-COVID-19 situation is complex and the ‘where we left it’ approach will not do for any stage of school education As children return to the classroom after an unprecedentedly long gap, many among their teachers realise that teaching will be tougher. And there are others who assume that it will be business as usual. In fact, they have already started teaching from the point ‘where we left it’, meaning...
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