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Feb 13, 2021

How 'love jihad' laws clash with Special Marriage Act

Recently several states including Uttar Pradesh introduced anti-conversion laws making religious conversion for the sake of marriage illegal. These laws were based on the conspiracy theory of ‘love jihad’ which...

24 mins

Feb 12, 2021

Indian Economy Explained - Understanding Union Budgets since Independence

On 1st February 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first ever paper-less and digital Union Budget for the fiscal year 2021-22. This is the first time the budget documents were paperless sin...

40 mins

Feb 08, 2021

How budget 2021 axed funds for nutrition schemes

The Union Budget 2021-2022 presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 1st February 2021 proposed an outlay of Rs 2.23 lakh crore towards health and well-being. The Finance Minister claimed a 137 pe...

20 mins

Jan 31, 2021

Masks and sanitisers - how sex workers survived the COVID-19 pandemic

It has been a year since the pandemic began. Sex workers across India are scrambling to get back on their feet. They are slowly resuming work with various safety measures, although income is nowhere near the sa...

32 mins

Jan 31, 2021

The Inequality Virus: How The Indian Government Helped Widen Our Wealth Gap

International charitable organisation Oxfam’s report ‘The Inequality Virus’ explores how inequality proved to be a bigger problem in this pandemic than the virus. Existing divisions in society were further wide...

30 mins

Jan 29, 2021

A year on, what the pandemic has taught us about our health systems

Exactly a year ago, on January 30, 2020 the World Health Organisation declared that the Covid-19 outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern. We have all suffered a year of the pandemic now a...

26 mins

Jan 22, 2021

Indian Economy Explained: Why is India’s Female Labour Force Participation Falling?

In November last year, India’s female labour force participation rate fell to its lowest points at 6.9%. While 67% of all men of working age are employed, only 9% of all women of working age are employed in the...

26 mins

Jan 21, 2021

How the Farmers’ Protests turned Atmanirbhar with Trolley Times

The farmers’ protest against the three new farm laws is not the first where protesters have refused to engage with what they consider pro-government media. Slogans like ‘Godi Media Go Back’ were also seen durin...

18 mins

Jan 18, 2021

Why a Covaxin Controversy in Bhopal is worrying trial participants, activists and experts

Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin is one of the two Indian vaccines being administered to healthcare workers as India embarks on the world’s largest inoculation drive. Health experts have expressed concerns as hundreds...

32 mins

Jan 16, 2021

Every Indian’s Checklist- How will the new Code on wages affect your salaries?

The Code on Wages, 2019 is likely to come into effect before April this year. The Code on Wages Act, 2019 aims to amend and consolidate laws relating to wages and bonus. It also aims to simplify and rationalise...

13 mins