Contemporary India is facing a unique crisis all along the food spectrum. An Agrarian crisis driving farmer suicides at one end, dismal numbers of nutritionally deprived and sickly children at the...
In my recent visit to Lalitpur’s Sahariya Community, I met 55 year old disabled woman named Lachi. “Due to lack of irrigation facilities and irregular rain I could not harvest the Rabi crop. The 25...
More than 10 years after the first World Social Forum took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the latest South Asia Social Forum is already underway in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Like all Social Forum events,...
Standing on the edge of a paddy field covered in water which reflected the grey sky above, creating a single frame, Geeta completed the picture story for my assignment to get success stories of women...
Blog posts by Banamallika and Swapan. Both were one of the first groups from NGOs to get across to Sikkim after the earthquake that rocked the himalayan region, leaving a trail of destruction and...
Recently, I travelled to Bijapur in Karnataka to meet some Muslim women activists. At that time, I did not think the trip would compel me to ask myself a very basic question: what does it mean to be...
Close to two years since the much feted Right to Education Act came into being, the status of school education continues to be plagued by lack of awareness, assertion and access, especially among the...
The plight of school infrastructure and education in Bihar was laid bare at a recent public hearing, questioning the tall claims of substantial progress by the state towards making schools and...
In one of the biggest pushes to highlight the rights and struggles of the homeless people in Chennai, one India’s rapidly growing metros and the capital of Tamil Nadu...
Internet giant Google has committed to provide a grant of USD 1,000,000 to ActionAid India in its mission to fight bonded labour and human trafficking in India. This is part of a grant of USD 115...
Now I will only go to school. Now I will not take goats for grazing! Meo Muslim girl's in Mirzapur today can now chant this rhyme without fear. This is a story of how it happened
Thousands of tribal families have been uprooted and turned into refugees in their own country along the border of the tribal dominated state of Chhattisgarh and neighboring Andhra Pradesh.
