Lately, I've been thinking about my true identity and how I introduce myself...
Addressing Mental Health Challenges for Women in India
Introduction Mental health is as vital as physical health and should be...
Rehan And Patwan – A System of Mortgaging Agricultural Land
In rural India, where a significant portion of agricultural land is cultivated...
Understanding Value Chain Analysis For Driving Social Change
As an India Fellow, I got a chance to understand the value chains of...
Garment Construction: An Overview
Fun Fact: The piece of apparel you are currently wearing was potentially put...
Reflections From The Work On Tuberculosis
I have been working for 18 months with Innovators In Health (IIH). The...
The Lack Of Access To Education For Children Of Migrant Workers In Kerala
11-year-old Habil* is engaged in an intense mobile game. Gunshots echo in his...
Visual Arts As A Way To Connect Children To The Library
I have a feeling that my relationship with art has been changing since joining...
The Cycle Of Undernutrition
A few weeks back, my roommate and I had an argument about the taste of food. She argued that it's only our hunger that makes the food delicious. While I argued that delicious food will taste delicious irrespective of whether the person is hungry or not. By the time we...
How Can We Improve The Education System In Rural India?
The highest pupil dropout rates in southern rural Rajasthan begin in 8 grade. I tried to understand the education system in the rural villages around Gogunda, Rajasthan. In most cases, girls would leave after they start menstruating and the boys would disengage...
A Brief Introduction To Crafts – From Kachchh, Gujarat
The floor, the once-blue drums, tables and chairs; are all covered in a white-ish powder. Anything you touch and you will dust your hands. Machines that you don’t recognize, lie around you. There are big pots made with plaster of paris filled with a grey-looking clay...
कुपोषण और क्षयरोग (टीबी)
राजस्थान का दक्षिणी क्षेत्र में कई प्रकार की स्वास्थ्य समस्याऐं हैं| मैं यहाँ बेसिक हेल्थकेयर सर्विसेज़ (BHS) नाम की संस्था के साथ एक नर्स के रूप में काम करता हूँ| एक नर्स की भूमिका में, मैं मरीज़ों की देखभाल करता हूँ| साथ ही में उनकी स्वास्थ्य और बीमारी पर चल रहे...
सुकमा की विलुप्त होती मौखिक भाषाएं
परिचय सुकमा छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य का एक ज़िला है।सुकमा ज़िला के पूर्व में उड़ीसा तथा दक्षिण में आंध्रप्रदेश है। सुकमा एक आदिवासी बाहुल्य ज़िला है । यहाँ आदिवासियों की आबादी लगभग 85% है। सुकमा में मुख्यरूप से गोंड, धुरवा, डोरला जनजातियां निवास करती है । यह...
Insurance And Inclusivity : How Far Have We Reached ?
Five years ago, an insurance agent came to my house to convince me to get life insurance. "I'm pretty healthy, nothing horrible is going to happen to me," I thought to myself. At that time, I did not understand how life insurance works. All I thought was if I need to...
What’s Happening With One Nation One Ration Card Scheme
The famed One Nation One Ration, implemented since 2019, has seen little success on ground. A glimpse of our field experiences in Kerala
सालों बाद पास हुआ वनाधिकार का वैयक्तिक दावा
देश के अलग-अलग राज्यों में बहुत से आदिवासी समुदाय है, जो आज भी जंगल में रहते है. २०वी सदी से अपनी जमीन अपने नाम पर होने के लिए वे सालों से सरकार के साथ संघर्ष कर रहे हैं. जंगल जमीन यह आदिवासी समुदाय का सबसे बड़ा मुद्दा रहा है. यह संघर्ष क्यों ? देश की तरह ही राजस्थान...
Learning From Wipro Partners’ Meet 2022
Education system of India - has it ever not been a hot topic? I can go as far as I can in time and recall the debates and discussions around it. Often, we talk about a topic or a word so much that it starts to lose its true essence and remains a buzzword. I was...
Financial Literacy – Necessity Of The Hour
Trigger Warning: Suicide, Death, Distress Ramesh Lal*, his wife and their four children were found dead at their home in the Udaipur district on 21st November , 2022. He was the only earning member in this six-person household. He had earlier migrated to work at a...
GPDP: An Instrument For Development Of Panchayats
GPDP process being facilitated It is mandatory for the Gram Panchayats to prepare Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) for their economic development and social justice in the 73rd constitutional amendment. It has to be comprehensive and based on a participatory...
A Library That Nurtures Choice And Freedom
I bleakly recall the image of me as a child looking with awe at the encyclopaedia and a lot of giant picture books kept high up on the shelf of our school library. We used to have a library period when we would go through the shelves and pick up a book with our own...
A How-To Guide If You Are Beginning To Understand Mental Health
While growing up, I had many close friends through school and college who have gone through anxiety and depression. Being with them through it all, I assumed I understood what it meant to go through a problematic mental health issue. I assumed that I know how to...
Let’s Talk About Sh*t (Part 2 of 2)
It was a cold, foggy Wednesday morning. I was with Jaysingh*, one of our field staff at Swasthya Swaraj. We were on our way to visit the schools and to collect growth monitoring data of under-five children in one cluster in Kerpai panchayat. After...