2025

The monetisation of nationalism, where outrage trumps objective analysis reflects a broader erosion of journalistic ethics in India. India

At a time, when the world was grappling with the harrowing 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States of America, a small country in East Africa was set to undergo a radical transformation that was going to alter the nation

What do we actually mean by learning something? Is it memorising facts, writing exams, getting a good job, or achieving a certain social status? I know a doctor who has been practising medicine for almost 15 years, yet he does not allow his daughter to enter the puja ghar (small temple in the house) or kitchen during her periods. Is he a learned person? Has he truly learned medicine? This brings us to a deeper question: What does learning actually mean, especially in the context of the (…)

Executed through a Presidential Order, followed by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, on August 5, 2019, India downgraded the state of J&K to a Union Territory. The rationale behind the abrogation of article 370 and 35-A was to integrate J&K with the rest of India, start a robust economic development, ending discrimination, curbing terrorism and separatism apart from the other arguments advanced by the Central Government such as legal and constitutional, a political and (…)

The discussion on gender inequality has always been a never-ending topic. Although technology has advanced across various fields, with the rise of service sectors and the AI generation reaching its peak, there is still a wide gap between the two genders. I am referring to the gap in opportunities provided and the power of control over decision-making. Power is still largely vested in the hands of men. This essay argues that in both domestic and public life, women’s autonomy is undermined by (…)

Every 28 May, we observe

Life resonates even from lifeless objects, hence museums are much more than just collection of

India is being paraded on global and national platforms as the world

May 21, 2025
About 28 million unemployed educated youth in India are looking for jobs. And about 100 million, mostly women, have stopped looking for jobs.
by Santosh Mehrotra
The employment rate, or the share of the working-age and youth population finding work [1], is falling in India.
Our own study, based on an Indian government agency data [2], however, shows, that this is not the case.
However, that is because of its definitions of what is

We, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a human rights organization working for decades to monitor the India