Out of 4,666 MPs and MLAs in the country, just 464 are women, again amounting to 10 percent. “This analysis takes a look at participation of women in Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies,” ADR ...

The NGO Just Rights for Children has claimed that its campaign, the Bal Vivah Mukti Rath, reached more than 8.5 lakh people across 2,000 villages in Gujarat during a month-long journey that culminated ...

In a press statement issued on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day, CASR expressed solidarity with women around the world fighting for dignity, equality and justice, while highlighting what it ...

His celebrated poem “Women Who Cook” (Khānā Banātī Striyāṃ) is not merely about food preparation; it is a searing indictment ...

Founded in 1976 by writer, journalist and playwright Pabitra Kumar Deka, the cultural organisation Aikyatan has grown into an ...

In an age of literary noise—where novels compete for attention through sensationalism, where market forces dictate creative ...

Western interventions led by Yankee imperialism continue to follow an old grammar of dominance — forming alliances with ...

For thousands of years the caste system has divided people into hereditary groups. At the top were Brahmins, or priests; below th ...

This can be seen in state-aggregated data for India, with Bihar recording 8% of its population in the above-60 age group and Kerala recording 19% in this age group (data from the last census in 2011).

The reported sinking of the Iranian ship IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka raises troubling questions about ...

Critics argue that these sessions often amount to little more than procedural theatre, allowing the same problems to persist year after year without meaningful resolution. One of the most serious ...

The widely anticipated yet unprovoked attack on Iran on March 1 by the United States and Israel has drawn sharp criticism ...