-Scroll.in/ India.Mongabay.com The Gond community has decided to bury their dead instead. For the Gond community, one of India’s largest Adivasi people, cremation is a part of the final rites when someone dies – the dead body is put atop a pile of wood and burnt to ash. But realising that they were faced with a choice between holding on to an ancient ritual and protecting their environment, which they consider sacred,...
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Jhansi train INCident with nuns shows Christian habits are the new skullcaps in India -Rachel John
-ThePrint.in After Christian nuns were harassed over fears of ‘forceful conversion’, church groups are advising nuns and priests not to step out in their habits. Clothes are deeply embedded in the regional and cultural framework of India. But today, they are being used for something far more sinister — religious profiling. Certain clothing items are categorically unsafe to wear in this country because they make you easy targets, as the recent train INCident...
More »Declining Female Work Participation in India: What does the Periodic Labour Force Survey Tell Us? -Ellina Samantroy, Kingshuk Sarkar and Sanjib Pradhan
-MainstreamWeekly.net The paper is based on highlights from the Periodic Labour Force Surveys (PLFS) on female labour force participation. The paper has also used the quinquennial rounds of the Employment and Unemployment Surveys. Women’s participation in the workforce has been continuously declining sINCe 2004-05 though a marginal INCrease was reported in PLFS 2018-19 with a corresponding INCrease in self-employment. In this context, the paper tries to understand the employment trends for...
More »China may have become more prosperous in comparison to India in 2020, estimates new study
During the last one year, India seems to have lost the race in becoming the world leader in terms of development, prosperity and growth thanks to the recession brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. The total number of poor people in the country has swelled and the middle class has shrunk in 2020 in comparison to what was anticipated earlier. A new study by the United States based think tank Pew...
More »Dormant Parliament, fading business -MR Madhavan
-The Hindu The gradual deterioration in Parliament’s functioning has to be stopped if it is to fulfil its constitutional mandate The Budget session of Parliament ended on Thursday, two weeks ahead of the original plan, as many political leaders are busy with campaigning for the forthcoming State Assembly elections. This follows the trend of the last few sessions: the Budget session of 2020 was curtailed ahead of the lockdown imposed following the...
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