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Fakeness and flakiness are not hard to spot in the social sector
There is plenty of authenticity and rigour but some organisational cultures are weak on both aspects. Anurag Behar, in Mint, shares a handy guide to the sector.
Flash Fiction Contest | Meet the Winners
Read the captivating stories by budding writers who made it to the winning league of round 1 of the Flash Fiction Contest
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Exploring Urban Perceptions Around Freshness of Vegetables
Seema Purushothaman, Vidya Sadashiva and Anjali V Raj, in Ideas for India, contend that a relationship of trust between producers and consumers can enable convergence of quality, nutrition and food safety in farm produce.
How to make Common University Entrance Test (CUET) a success
A collaborative approach will ensure a more comprehensive and well-informed assessment that will accommodate the diversity of state board curricula, writes Shilpi Banerjee, in The New Indian Express.
The ‘Red Queen Effect’ in Bannerghatta
The shortsighted vision of cities — assuming all ecological spaces to be ‘waste’ lands, areas that can be sacrificed for urban infrastructure development whenever we choose — needs to be combated, writes Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald.
Wages of inequality: The income-growth gap
Gap between wage and GDP growth indicates a worsening of income distribution as well as weak improvements in welfare, write Amit Basole and Zico Dasgupta, in The Indian Express.
Azim Premji University sees over 120 firms participate in placements
The placements demonstrate the competitive nature of the opportunities available to graduates, highlights Business Today. Explore the key highlights.
How healthy is the health budget?
The health budget for 2024 – 25 does not inspire much hope for the public health sector despite the 10% increase in the budget allocated for the National Health Mission, write Mampi Bose and Sunit Arora, in Deccan Herald.
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Health: Band-aids will not heal a system that needs deep attention
The sector’s basics need to be addressed for substantive progress to be made. Nutrition, primary healthcare and preventive and community health should be focus areas too, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.
Let children be children
We need to fight against a popular culture that demeans and destroys childhood and poses a severely fractured notion of the ‘body’ as an object rather than a part of the body-mind whole, write Vikash Sharma and Ananya Pathak, in Deccan Herald.
Designing a science communication course for science and non-science majors
Ananya Mukherjee and Rukma Prince, in IndiaBioscience, share what prompted them to create this course and the kind of educational issues that the course aims to address.
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Shift in India’s female workforce sees increase in salaried women but gender wage gap persists
Moving up the salary ladder reduces the gap. Policy responses that encourage improved access to education for girls and expand formal employment can help, highlight Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham, in Scroll.
Issues around Prejudices and Morality in Children
Tarannum Shaikh, in The New Leam, explores ideas around prejudice and morality among young minds and looks at how it impacts their engagement with the world.
#DataViz: Over Half of Delhi’s Garbage Ends Up in Landfills
In three charts, Anshul Rai Sharma, in IndiaSpend, explains Delhi’s garbage and sewage crisis, which is threatening the health of its 20 million citizens.
Collectively blind to pollution
Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald, explains how rubber tyres constitute an invisible link between air and water pollution and may have severe impacts on human health.
How we can make school celebrations inclusive
Children come to school in traditional or festive clothes and celebrate festivals together. Here, we need to question the norms and ideas that must change to suit our times, writes Shefali Tripathi Mehta, in The News Minute.
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India Development Rate : या लेखात आपण राष्ट्रीय उत्पन्न कसे काढतात हे समजून घेऊया.
Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli — “Caste shapes access to water in so many ways”
The authors of Shades of Blue discuss climate change, its impact on the most disadvantaged sections of society, and the ongoing water crisis across Indian cities, with Arunima Mazumdar, in Hindustan Times.
Each cup of tea, a step towards self-sufficiency
Founded by Alina Alam, an alumna of Azim Premji University, Mitti Café has provided an inclusive space and sound livelihood for hundreds of people with disabilities, writes Sweekruthi K, in Deccan Herald.
What explains policy change? Understanding the historical political economy of India
Using instances from the Nehruvian planning régime to the economic liberalisation in 1991, Rahul De, in Ideas for India, aims to use political economy concepts to incisively explain major economic policy changes in India.
We must bust myths around the social service sector
False notions of sustainability, scaling up, systemic change and ulterior motives need to be tackled, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.
Economic Growth, Structural Change, and Women’s Earnings in India
The last two decades have seen a large churn in the Indian female workforce. However, this increase has not led to a systematic reduction in the unexplained earnings gap, write Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham, in India in Transition.
Ejipura flyover project raises concerns over high environmental impact
The study by researchers from Azim Premji University is especially significant in the backdrop of the Bengaluru Climate Action and Resilience Plan (BCAP), which aims to achieve net-zero by 2050, highlights Harshitha Padmavinod, in Citizen Matters.
Small kindnesses
This December 31, when we light candles to usher in the New Year, let us make each spot of light count toward a small kindness for the environment, writes Harini Nagendra, in Deccan Herald.
Why Children of Migrant Farm Workers in Gujarat Remain Out of School
With distance and language barriers as the top reasons, Gautami Kulkarni, in IndiaSpend, sheds light on the ‘access to schooling’ for children of migrant agricultural workers who migrated with their parents to Gujarat.
India’s jobs crisis, the macroeconomic reasons
The employment challenge can no longer be met only through more rapid GDP growth; a separate policy focus is needed on employment, write Amit Basole and Zico Dasgupta, in The Hindu.
Institution Builders in Modern India: 8 Behaviours
Institution building cannot be left to chance. It needs design and work. And every one of us is an architect of the institutions we are fortunate to be part of, writes Sudheesh Venkatesh, in People Matters.
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Insistence on empathy holds the key to a society bonded by trust
Kindness for one another will help us forge a community where each one of us can live in dignity, writes Anurag Behar, in Mint.