All You Need To Know About The Ecosystem ‘Services’ In The ‘Amazon Of The East’
The film ‘Sherni’, starring Vidya Balan that recently got released on Amazon Prime Video, allowed me to think about and write about wildlife. Although, I felt the film quite did not live up to the...
View ArticleI Was ‘Allowed’ To Be Educated As Long As I Obeyed Gender Norms. I Didn’t.
As a kid, I always thought education was a right that everyone naturally gets. Everyone goes to school and it is the natural course of life for every child. It was only when I reached middle school, I...
View ArticleIs Sacrificing 2.15 Lakh Trees In Buxwaha For A Diamond Mine Worth It?
Buxwaha forest of district Chhatarpur, MP, is estimated to have 34 million carats of diamond. There will be a massive mining project on over 364 hectares of forest land in the upcoming days. It was won...
View ArticleDiamond Mining In Buxwaha Forest Threatens Tribal Livelihood
In the Buxwaha Forest in Madhya Pradesh’s Chattarpur district, 650 km away from Delhi and 260 km Northeast of Bhopal, the State Capital of Madhya Pradesh, more than 2 lakh trees are at risk of being...
View ArticleNomad Girls: Those Who Wander And Lose Education
When the summer returns in the valley of Kashmir, so do the nomadic people with the flocks of sheep and goats. Laden on horses, the men and women from these nomadic tribal Gujjar and Bakarwal...
View ArticleCan The Government Bring A Change To Uplift Rabari Girls?
“ They may be giving something to those who are in the villages [referring to ‘settled’ farmers], but the government is not checking in on us who are in the bush,” said Dayabhai Rabari, a member of the...
View ArticleWhy Have There Been Cuts In Schemes To Bring Girls Back To School?
It’s been a year since schools in India have been shut down due to the pandemic. Girls have been affected the most due to this. The Malala Fund predicts in a report that nearly 20 million secondary...
View ArticleAre Religion And Politics To Blame For The Current Environmental Crisis?
Environmental change is to be determined with two values; one is 51 billion and the other is zero. Fifty-one billion tons of greenhouse gases are added by the world typically to the environment every...
View ArticleAs Rainfall Declines, Farmers In Gwalior Rely On Borewells To Meet...
In the seminal Hindi movie Lagaan, villagers eagerly await ‘Kale Megha’ (black clouds). The arrival of ‘Kale Megha’ is greeted by a song and dance to welcome the blessings that rains bring. This song...
View Article23 Million Girls Drop Out Of School Every Year, And It Might Just Increase Now
Education for girls in India depends on a multitude of factors. Factors like safety, transportation, social stigmas and perceptions all play a role in determining whether or not a girl gets educated....
View ArticleFriends Of The Desert: How Camels Can Help Build Climate Change Resilience
Found in dry and semi-arid parts of Africa and Asia, camels are mostly reared by nomads. For centuries, the identity of the camel remains intertwined with the desert and its people. The milk and meat...
View ArticleMukhyamatri Kanya Utthan Yojana: Bihar’s Step Towards Revolutionizing Women’s...
Having recorded a double-digit fiscal growth rate, from 4.2% to 10.5% in the year of 2019-20, Bihar is strutting ahead to augment its rate of female literacy, since the year 2018, with the...
View Article₹3000 is Less, But At Least Baba Doesn’t Have To Clean Toilets For My Schooling
The National Scheme on the Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education or NSIGSE is a scheme to promote learning. It even tries to at least retain schoolgirls of SC/ST communities till the age of 18. To...
View ArticleHow A People’s Movement Ensured Protection For Dehing Patkai
The government of Assam recently upgraded the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into the Dehing Patkai National Park (DPNP). It is not only the up-gradation of DPNP that we need to be happy about, but...
View Article“Having A Sense Of Shame About Menstruation Has Driven Plastic Into Women’s...
Spending billions on advertisements and years of marketing “shame” to women led to the health and pollution crises they currently face. A couple of years ago, National Geographic published a lengthy...
View ArticleIn The Name Of Environmentalism, Lakhs Have Been Displaced By Authorities
Modern, ultra-modern projects of development have been projected as the new form of temples in India. Corporates, Indian state machinery and foreign capitalists are the new priests of these temples...
View ArticlePrioritising Menstrual Health And Hygiene During Emergencies
By Argentina Matavel Piccin, VK Madhavan Over the last few years, the world has witnessed accelerated action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 5 on gender equality and...
View ArticleReclaiming Arts, Breaking Barriers: Lutfa And Mousumi’s Journey Towards Change
The story of gender empowerment in India is not a particularly happy one. Gender discrimination pervades all levels of society, women’s rights continue to be denied through social, cultural and...
View Article‘More Plastic Than Fish In Oceans’: Reassessing Our Plastic Usage
‘Plastic’ is essentially the condensed form of ‘thermoplastics,’ which describes polymers that can b e moulded and shaped upon application of heat. These long chains attribute plastics (Plastic...
View ArticleWith 49% Women Enrolment In Higher Education, Is It Reason to Celebrate Yet?
Recently, the Ministry of Education released the latest edition of AISHE (All India Survey on Higher Education) 2019-20 report. According to the report, women in India now hold 49% share in total...
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