Tag: POVERTY

REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL The 69th Republic Day is here and now is the ripe moment to think of the trajectory of the nation. With success and contradiction, achievement and challenges, India is unfolding its unique tale. Let us revisit, let us contemplate and think of this nation that we call ours. Kavya Thomas

Anganwadis play a vital role in rural India and with due infrastructural and budgetary allocation they can bridge the much widening gap between developmental goals and on ground realities.

For many of Odisha's ordinary folk plucking of Kendu leaves comprises an occupation, but despite their poverty and marginalisation are they likely to witness a better tomorrow?

The pandemic and its devastating impact on the world as a whole compels us to rethink capitalism in our times.

The working class builds the buildings, the bridges, the roads and industries of the nation but the nation doesn’t do much to build the lives of its workers.

In the piece that follows the author has beautifully depicted how small farmers are coming up with innovative solutions to the farming crisis and what this implies in the long run.

Unemployment plagues the Asia-Pacific region in the post-COVID world according to the latest ILO report.

A report shows how communities like the Adivasis, STs, SCs and minorities experienced a prolonged reduction in food consumption in a post-lockdown India.

Pregnant and lactating women along with children under the age of six years stand at a complete risk of huger and malnutrition as Anganwadis remain shut amid the pandemic.

The pandemic and its extensive economic fallout have compelled more people across the world to go hunger and suffer from malnutrition.