Economic Inequality

India's economic inequality widened since 1980; North America, China, Russia find mention in category: Report

Report said economic inequality in India has risen substantially since 1980s following profound transformations in an economy

JNU alternative classroom: P Sainath explains how criminalisation of dissent is nothing new

The criminalisation of dissent, what the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students are now facing, has existed for over two decades outside Delhi.

India, China made important inroads into reducing poverty: IMF

India and China have made important in-roads into reducing poverty, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said, adding at the same time with high growth, they have also seen rising inequality.

Govt burdened by economic slowdown: Pranab Mukherjee

In his first address to a joint session of Parliament Thursday, Mukherjee spoke of persisting social and economic inequality.

The next sexual revolution: All about a room of my own?

One of the biggest casualties of growing up in a middle class Indian household - where your chemistry books fight for space with your father's grocery accounts book, where you have had to lock yourself up in the bathroom to say good-morning to the new boyfriend - is your sex life.