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Governance
A strong disability rights law meets a built environment that ignores it. On the RPWD Act's promises versus the ramps, buses, jobs, and classrooms that still don't exist.
Forgotten Heroes
Born in 1963 into the Mallah community, Phoolan Devi became a Chambal dacoit, surrendered in 1983 and was twice elected to Parliament. She died in 2001.
Forgotten Heroes
In 1848, Savitribai Phule opened India's first school for girls in Pune and became the country's first female teacher. Her story of defying caste and gender oppression - walking through stones and mud to teach every day - is one of India's most important and least told histories.
Education
The UGC equity rules 2026 mandate every Indian college to form Equity Committees with SC/ST/OBC/women/disabled representation. Supporters call it overdue justice. Critics call it bureaucratic overreach. Here is what students, faculty, and the data actually say about caste discrimination on Indian campuses.
Social Justice
Is caste really the root problem in modern India, or is it poverty, lack of education, and political exploitation? In cities, nobody asks your caste. With money and education, barriers dissolve. This opinion piece argues that India's caste narrative is sustained by politicians who profit from division and a media that amplifies victimhood over solutions.
Child Welfare
India is home to one-third of the world's stunted children. With 35.5% of children under 5 stunted, 19.3% wasted, and anaemia rising to 67.1%, child malnutrition remains a national emergency. Explore the NFHS-5 data, state-wise disparities, the caste intersection, government interventions like ICDS and POSHAN Abhiyaan, and what India must do to break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.
Gender Equality
Dowry in India is an economic transaction, not a caste ritual. Today, money sets the price - an IIT engineer from any caste commands more than a jobless Brahmin. Here's how economic power is reshaping India's marriage market.
Social Justice
India's reservation system explained: history from the Poona Pact to the EWS quota, current SC/ST/OBC percentages, key data on representation gaps, and the strongest arguments for and against affirmative action.
Social Justice
Despite three laws and multiple Supreme Court orders banning manual scavenging, the practice persists across India, claiming over 1,300 lives since 1993 and trapping Dalit communities in a cycle of caste-based degradation that the state has failed to break.
