Rural women are pivotal in addressing India's obesity and metabolic disorders through community action and public-private ...

The changing climate is increasing the workload and vulnerability of rural women, affecting sectors like agriculture.

The National Rural Livelihoods Mission, a flagship project of the Modi government, is yielding promising results by enabling ...

The PLFS (periodic Labour Survey) data on employment from 2017–18 to 2022–23 paints an optimistic picture of women’s participation. There has been an increase in WPR for women aged 15 years or more ...

Despite the diversity that shapes the reality of Indian women, social programs are still designed as ‘one size fits all’.

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

On November 20, 2019, I wrote for The Indian Express on “A Greater Ease of Living.” I had argued that discussions of rural ...

India's poorest households are now buying more durable goods like bikes, cars and fridges. Mobile phones are almost ...

According to the World Bank, only 35% of Indian women participate in the workforce, which can be increased to 70% to achieve ...

MGNREGA mattered because it was not framed as charity. It was framed as a legal entitlement. It protected the poor and ...

MGNREGA was initially enacted as NREGA in 2005, with its intellectual and policy roots in the earlier efforts of the 1990s.

A Reading in the Biography of a Revolutionary Indian Intellectual By Bayan Saleh Throughout history, women have played ...