October 2017
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Susegad about the State of a School in Shambles
While the CM boasts that Goa is the richest state in India, the students in a high school in rural Cancona fear that the roof might collapse on their heads.
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“Because I am a boy”: How Masculinity is Learned
Ravind was just another kid playing around with the other kids of his age in his village until the day he wore girls’ footwear and his friends teased him about it.
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Malnourished Democracy
The death of an eleven-year-old in Jharkhand has once again focused attention on the abysmal performance of the world's largest democracy in fighting hunger and malnourishment. But what happens once the media's glare shifts?
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The Lost Boys of Arwal
Four families have been waiting for two years for their children to return as the police twiddles its thumbs.
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Land Grab: Farmers Struggle as Officials Play Blame Game
Forest Department in Maharashtra illegally occupies land belonging to farmers, leaving them with no source of livelihood.
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Women Should be Younger than Their Husbands and Other Lessons of Patriarchy
Men and women alike internalise gender discrimination. Is there a way to unlearn patriarchy? Saket is in middle school. But he’s very sure of the reason behind the difference in legal marriageable age of women (18) and men (21). “It is so that women can’t dominate us,” he says with...
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Community Weddings: The Solution to Dowry and Child Marriage?
In Rajasthan, as community weddings are celebrated as philanthropic initiatives, it is time to look deeper into the politics of caste and patriarchy.
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Community Comes Together to Repair Broken Village Road
Tired of the apathy of the local authorities who failed to repair a badly damaged road for two decades, village residents in Pisurti took matters into their own hands.