At over 80 years old, she is known as Planthottachi—named for the jackfruit (plavu) tree that gave shade to her home. Her life is a living archive of resilience and loss. When I met her, she greeted ...

According to official figures, the estimated number of people who took a dip in the river at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, which concluded on 26 February, is 66 crore. The Uttar Pradesh government ...

This paper studies the extent of teacher’s in-group bias in occupational expectations and grading on the basis of student’s caste and socio-economic status. The paper adopts an experimental approach ...

But women poets existed in the Urdu literary sphere, leading lives vibrant enough to be recorded in antho­logies. Farhat Hasan’s Voices in Verses: Women’s Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth ...

Academics have observed that university matters pertaining to faculty and vice chancellors, syllabi, appointments and terminations have increasingly become politically motivated (Sundar 2024). The ...

There is a lack of inclusive and equitable quality education in India. Due to socio-economic disparities and gender-based discrimination, children are struggling with basic literacy and numeracy ...

Behind this political theatre of land auctions lies a deeper story of ecological belonging and the unmaking of non-human communities through displacement from their habitats, and their inability to ...

This unprecedented move disrupted the academic calendar and destabilised the hopes and imagined futures of millions of students. The cancellation of this key “rite of passage” introduced widespread ...

Primary education, of acceptable quality, creates the base. Equal opportunities, along with universal access, in school education are critical, but access without quality is no access. Higher ...

Using the National Statistical Office’s Time Use Survey 2019, it is found that tertiary-educated mothers devote 159 more minutes weekly to childcare than non-literate mothers. While existing research ...

Sixty-year-old Nanchan from Kuppam Colony was trampled by an elephant, while gathering forest produce near the Tamil Nadu border. The elder described the elephant as a “lost protector,” displaced by ...

In developing countries, rural households often rely on solid fuels for cooking, heating, and lighting, with women and children typically collecting these fuels from forests, their own land, and ...