31 Jan 2019 3 minute read
... Hiding behind women to safeguard against being named in India’s second #MeToo moment, which has seen women, ... against rich, powerful and influential male figures. In India, which topped a global survey in June for being the ...
30 May 2019 4 minute read
... Narendra Modi took the oath for his second term as India’s prime minister. On 23 May, the Indian electorate ... In the run-up to the elections, in various villages across India, villagers were more or less unanimous that Modi was ... group Jaish-e-Mohammed, had led to a stand-off between India and Pakistan. This all went to strengthen Modi’s ...
17 Sep 2019 3 minute read
Deepika Singh learnt to sign her name during one of India’s frenetic mass literacy campaigns in the early ... name is the extent of her literacy. But she counts among India’s 64.6 per cent ‘functionally literate’ women, ... a rotting, tick-the-box system. It has been a decade since India enacted the Right to Education Act, which made ...
14 Jul 2019 3 minute read
... What Is Time? states: ‘It is not unusual for trains in India to be several hours, or even a full day, late, without ...
6 Mar 2019 3 minute read
... (UP) last December is an important time-stamp. UP is India’s most populous state with over 200 million ... where levels of cow worship are higher than the rest of India. Madhya Pradesh has a cow protection board and has been ...