
COVID second wave: government checks out, citizens check in
The Union Government has failed us spectacularly with Narendra Modi and Amit Shah focusing on the election campaign in West Bengal rather than the health and economic crisis we are facing. It’s the co...
23 Apr 20217min

Women informal workers face a double whammy
Informal employment is largely the norm in India. While women make up only 23% of India’s informal employees, up to 91% of women in paid jobs are in the informal sector. This is a huge gender imbalanc...
20 Apr 202139min

Why India is struggling with a COVID vaccine shortage
With the second wave of COVID-19 here, India’s preparedness is in question. We’re a vaccine manufacturing powerhouse but we suffer from a severe vaccine shortage. This has been compounded by a shortag...
16 Apr 20217min

Parenting and feminism
Feminism is about ensuring all people are equal, regardless of gender. It is about women having power over themselves, about getting rid of dominance. In this context, parenting assumes great signific...
13 Apr 202125min

Why small savings schemes matter
The government slashed interest rates offered by small savings schemes such as the Public Provident Fund and the National Savings Certificate, but hurriedly withdrew after realising it could anger vot...
9 Apr 20216min

Economist Jean Drèze decodes India’s hunger crisis
India’s abysmal record on hunger has intensified after the COVID-19 pandemic after being worsened by demonetisation. A survey showed that 77% of tribal families, 76% of Dalits and 54% of Adivasis said...
6 Apr 202143min

How Delhi’s voters were rendered irrelevant
The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021, shifts the balance of power from a duly elected government to the Lieutenant-Governor, a Central Government appointee. Th...
2 Apr 20215min

The space for dissent and freedoms is shrinking in India
Recently, the V-Dem Institute declared India an ‘electoral autocracy’, pointing to a sharp decline in democratic freedoms. This is in line with what we’re seeing on the ground – the space for dissent,...
30 Mar 20211h 13min



















