On the one hand, India has witnessed a consistent declining trend in female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) during the 1990s and in the first one and a half decades of the millennium (from 33.

Imagine this Brahmanical, patriarchal social structure as a house Each element listed on the panel represents a part of this structure. Click on each word and build this house. You will understand how ...

The Information Technology Amendment Rules of 2023 grant the union government the authority to remove any online content pertaining to its business that it deems to be false or misleading. Under these ...

We need to genuinely devolve power to urban local bodies and financially empower them,  —NITI Aayog’s “Three Year Action Agenda 2017–18 to 2019–20: 59”Five finance commissions, beginning with the ...

Its profound effects are particularly evident in coastal areas, where the convergence of rising sea levels, shifting weather ...

The socio-economic data along with caste figures may lead to revisiting material questions underlying caste–class inequality. Awanish Kumar writes: In his Untouchables or the Children of Indias Ghetto ...

The beloved Gujarati families of Hindi television—the Sarabhais, the Parekhs, the Mehtas—seem to have aged into model citizens of New India.The beloved Gujarati families of Hindi television—the ...

Caste endogamy serves as a key mechanism for sustaining caste hierarchies, conferring upper-caste women a high ritual purity status along with certain material benefits (Velaskar 2016). These ...

There has been increased attention to food insecurity in India and globally since the 1990s. However, the food insecurity experienced by university students has not been widely discussed. We examine ...

We expect trouble when the rule-following poster girl is drawn towards the affable new boy, Srinivasan (Kesav Binoy Kiron). Trouble could, predictably, brew from close quarters—Mira’s mother, Anila ...

In this context, Dalit memoirs have emerged as a powerful medium for self-assertion and the articulation of caste-based oppression, challenging Brahminical hegemony and amplifying silenced voices.

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