social conditions

Brought together by COVID and Amphan, five women academicians bringing tailor-made relief across West Bengal

NGO Pather Pathik has been directly addressing the social needs of communities hit by natural and man-made crises, especially the ‘tiger widows’, women who have been rendered exceptionally vulnerable by the human-animal conflict in the Sundarbans

Bishwanath Ghosh

Needed, a well-crafted social security net for all

Feroze Varun Gandhi

NGOs conduct cleanliness drive in Manipur relief camps

The Hindu Bureau

India, a marvel that continues to endure

Dakkaligas are among the most marginalised

The first survey of manual scavengers had identified a total of 7,493 of them in the Karnataka.

Government to conduct re-survey to identify manual scavengers across Karnataka

Social Justice Ministry doubts app’s numbers on cases of manual scavenging

An avoidable controversy over sample surveys

Members of a boat club practising ahead of Champakulam Moolam boat race on Vembanad Lake in Alappuzha

Data | Malappuram, Palakkad and Wayanad lag behind other Kerala districts

Rebecca Rose Varghese,Hudson Joshiya J.,Jibrail Ismail

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When Cyrus chose fainting over responding to his son’s questions

‘Read together, the two books show many aspects of socio-cultural change in rural and urban India that we may not notice living our daily lives in the third decade of the 21st century’

Between two books, a revelatory social history

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference in New Delhi on June 25, 2023.

Obama’s remarks about minority rights in India are surprising, says Nirmala Sitharaman

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Members of Federation of Organisations and Associations of Mysuru opposing the hike in power tariff on Tuesday.

Power tariff: Stakeholders oppose steep hike, want it rescinded

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Smriti Ravindra.

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Guha’s ideas carried a certain revolutionary air, undoubtedly drawn from his own long background as a political worker

A tribute to historian Ranajit Guha who pioneered ‘Subaltern Studies’

Children follow school manager, Florina Ledwaba, toward pit toilets at the Jupiter Pre-School and Creche, in the rural village of Ga-Mashashane, near Polokwane, South Africa.

Dignity denied as more than 3,000 schools in South Africa still use pit toilets

Women members of the Constituent Assembly — back row (standing, from left): Kamala Chaudhari, Sucheta Kripalani, G. Durgabhai, Qudsiya Aizaz Rasul, Purnima Banerji, Dakshayani Velayudhan. Front row (sitting, from left): Renuka Ray, Hansa Mehta, Amrit Kaur, Annie Mascarene, Ammu Swaminathan.

Review of Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic — Gender Politics of the Framing of the Constitution: In search of missing mothers

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‘A Global Coalition for Social Justice is needed’

Tread a new path, one that prioritises social justice

Gilbert F. Houngbo

Minister to hand over houses to landless tribal families in Wayanad

The Hindu Bureau

There are 16,000 pourakarmikas in Bengaluru out of which 8,000 are drivers and helpers, whose jobs have still not been regularised.

New government should not go back on regularisation of jobs, say pourakarmikas

A file photo of domestic workers staging a protest in Bengaluru.

Karnataka polls | Recognition, social security among demands of domestic workers from new government

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Entering poll arena: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has expressed a desire to contest an election from Odisha.

‘Biju Janata Dal regime has an anti-OBC mindset’

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‘Protectors & Providers’ by Tamil Dalit artist Osheen Siva at Chennai’s Kannagi Art District.

New ways to imagine and resist | Meena Kandasamy picks four path-breaking books

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Sanitary workers staging a protest in front of the sewage treatment plant at Alake in Mangaluru on March 17, 2023.

Garbage still not lifted from several houses, apartments, other establishments as strike by sanitary workers continues

The Hindu Bureau

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