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Education
The AISHE report released in July 2026 shows record enrolment, women ahead of men, and rising participation from every disadvantaged group. It also shows growth slowing, and says almost nothing about what a degree is now worth.
Gender Equality
India's 2026 school audit found close to 99,000 schools with no separate toilet for girls. That single missing facility explains more adolescent dropout than most education policy debates admit.
Social Justice
Europe's LGBTQ+ legal reforms over 40 years offer India a working template. This article maps each milestone and the statutory gaps India would need to close.
Social Justice
Nepal registered its first same-sex marriage in November 2023. India's Supreme Court declined to create marriage equality the same month. Eight countries, one region, wildly different legal realities. A country-by-country comparison of LGBTQ+ rights across South Asia, and what India can specifically learn from Nepal's judiciary-led path.
Social Justice
India struck down Section 377 in 2018 via its Supreme Court. The Philippines has never passed a national anti-discrimination law despite 73% public support. Two Asian democracies, wildly different LGBT trajectories, and what that gap reveals about courts versus legislatures in driving social rights reform.
Gender Equality
India produces many women STEM graduates, about 43%, yet women are only 14% of scientists and engineers in research institutions.
Gender Equality
In rural India, 23 million girls drop out of school every year because of menstruation. With only 50 per cent of rural women using hygienic menstrual products and deeply entrenched taboos enforcing silence, period poverty remains one of India's most urgent, and least discussed, crises.
