A new book shows why the super-rich in India must strive to alleviate poverty and reduce inequality

Aejaz Ahmad Wani

· Nov 25, 2024 · 08:30 am

In Panama neighbourhood, dance is a ray of hope for children caught in cycle of poverty and strife

Yasser Yánez García, The Human Journalism Network

· Sep 21, 2024 · 07:30 pm

India’s stark disparities have finally found voice in political discussions

Anirban Bhattacharya Nancy Pathak

· Sep 06, 2024 · 09:00 am

How Community Land Reserves run by a board could provide affordable housing in India’s cities

Shirish B Patel

· Aug 31, 2024 · 09:00 am

First-person accounts of poverty and dreams in Buland Masjid, a makeshift habitation in New Delhi

Chitvan Gill

· May 22, 2024 · 08:30 am

Household expenditure report was ‘election-inspired’ document released by Centre, alleges Congress

Scroll Staff

· Feb 28, 2024 · 01:33 pm

How Aadhaar is strangling MGNREGA in a Maharashtra district and pushing workers to migrate

Tabassum Barnagarwala

· Jan 23, 2024 · 06:30 am

Good nutrition and food intake slashes risk of contracting tuberculosis, shows research from India

Yogan Pillay, The Conversation Madhukar Pai, The Conversation

· Aug 30, 2023 · 07:30 pm

India has promised for many decades to get rid of poverty. It has consistently failed to deliver

Jan Breman

· Aug 22, 2023 · 08:30 am

Faced with poverty and unemployment, young Ghanaian men are turning to online romance frauds

Bukola Adebayo, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Aug 18, 2023 · 11:30 pm

High mental healthcare costs are pushing Indian families into poverty

Nileena Suresh, IndiaSpend.com

· Jun 16, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Colonial roots, criminalising the vulnerable: Why India’s laws against begging need an urgent rehaul

Sneha Priya Yanappa Avinash Reddy

· Apr 16, 2023 · 09:00 am

Gujarat added 1,359 families to below poverty line list in two years

Scroll Staff

· Mar 22, 2023 · 07:31 pm

‘Do you work in business?’: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak serves breakfast to homeless man

Scroll Staff

· Dec 25, 2022 · 10:35 am

What a withdrawn Karnataka memo seeking Rs 100 from parents says about education funding in India

Gurumurthy Kasinathan

· Nov 28, 2022 · 11:30 am

What the story of two families says about the unchanging reality of living on the streets of Mumbai

Kalpana Sharma

· Oct 18, 2022 · 09:00 am

5.6 crore Indians plunged into poverty in 2020, says World Bank

Scroll Staff

· Oct 06, 2022 · 11:12 am

The Great Indian Poverty Debate, 2.0

Justin Sandefur

· Apr 26, 2022 · 11:30 am

Fact check: Has extreme poverty in India really dropped below 1%, as a new IMF paper claims?

Nidhi Jacob, Factchecker.in

· Apr 22, 2022 · 07:30 pm

What statistics miss: Even households earning eight times the poverty line suffer from deprivation

Nushaiba Iqbal, IndiaSpend.com

· Apr 05, 2022 · 01:30 pm