Urban India

As migrant workers prepare to leave megacities, fixing gaps in PDS and DBT will be key to preventing large scale unrest back home

The shramik trains can take a few thousand of migrant workers back to their home towns. For the rest, whose numbers will still be considerable, their main problem, as lockdown continues, will be hunger, not the virus, and a further deepening of existing social and income inequalities.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Invisibility of circular migrants in host states is at the heart of their exodus from urban centres

Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, many issues have begun to emerge from their dormant existence and unfold dramatically to capture the public's mind

Unsafe in border districts, sexually harassed and discriminated elsewhere, status of Indian women remain dismal, claims RSS report

According to a report on the status of Indian women, published by an NGO associated with the RSS, there’s a glaring disparity in wages between male and female workers in India with the unemployment rate higher among women between 18 and 30 years

Indian economy struggles to expand with rising unemployment rates, stagnant wages, poor female participation in labour force

The unemployment rate of both male and female in urban areas in unambiguously higher than those in the countryside.

Rahul Mehrotra on how architecture is being divorced from social context, why we should revise definition of urbanity

In a masterclass at the India Culture Lab, Rahul Mehrotra held forth on the limited definition of urban in India, how architecture is being dictated more by aesthetics than utility and why we should build to foster empathy

Sex education in schools is a must to tackle India's sexual violence epidemic

Sex ed includes reproductive health, STDs, contraceptives, consent & gender equality – all of which are key to addressing sexual violence.

Unemployment biggest problem facing India, claims Nitin Gadkari; says government needs to create more opportunities

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stressed on the need to think about how to create employment opportunities in rural and urban areas of India, saying unemployment is the biggest of the major problems facing the country

Over 43,000 villages lack mobile services: Taking stock of wireless connectivity across India in six charts

Telecom minister Manoj Sinha says that the top Indian states that lack mobile connectivity include those affected by left wing extremism (LWE).

Women's rights: State should mandate education, employment and not rely on fathers, father-in-laws, husbands

It seems clear that in the eyes of the law, women are meant to be cared for at all stages of their lives by men: Fathers, husbands, and if not husbands, then father-in-laws.

Gauri Lankesh's assassins will likely never be caught because India's police hasn't kept up with the times

But the police is still operating in a system that was instituted by the British to manage neighbourhood 'law and order' rather than solving crime through detection.