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Advaita Singh
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How Indian states fare in ensuring access to socio-economic security, basic amenities and justice
With the aim of understanding inequality from the lens of opportunities, a new index measures the disproportionality of access across the country.
Deepanshu Mohan, Richa Sekhani, Latika Sharma, Vanshika Mittal & Advaita Singh
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Where do Indian states stand in ensuring access to education and healthcare?
A recent study attempts to create a new index to measure and study the inequality of opportunities across the country.
Deepanshu Mohan, Richa Sekhani, Latika Sharma, Vanshika Mittal & Advaita Singh
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How Covid-19 pandemic has pushed India’s female domestic workers further to the margins
A study shows the impact on the group’s consumption, employment and income patterns across different time periods before and after the coronavirus outbreak.
Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Advaita Singh, Vanshika Mittal, Richa Sekhani & Shivani Agarwal
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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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CAA is a letdown, but Bengali Hindus in Assam are unlikely to ditch BJP
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India’s nutrition crisis has widened during the pandemic – especially for women and children
The focus is on providing food grains to the very poor as against supporting that with more funding for existing nutrition-focussed welfare programmes.
Deepanshu Mohan, Vanshika Shah & Advaita Singh
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How the accumulation of debt during the Covid-19 pandemic is hurting India’s low-income households
Household-debt-to-GDP ratio increased to 37.1% in the second quarter of 2020,
Deepanshu Mohan & Advaita Singh
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How daily wage workers in India suffered in the lockdown – and continue to struggle months later
Data in Lucknow showed that mean monthly income for labour work fell 62%, from Rs 9,500 per month in pre-pandemic times to Rs 3,500 per month now.
Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Advaita Singh & Snehal Sreedhar
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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