Global gender gap report 2023
The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival,
Politics
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Read my lips. No, no, no
P M BHARGAWA former director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad The scientific advisors are too scared to take any constructive step. So it does not matter whether they
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Yes sir, no sir...
S S KATIYAR vice chancellor, CSJM University, Kanpur Funds given to health care are not sufficient. It is not possible to carry out worthwhile research with this kind of funding. At least
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Forest war
Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, particularly forests. Large areas of densely forested regions in the country are controlled by Naxalites. In these
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Kings of forests
The control of Naxalites over forests is total and overwhelming
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Law of no returns
Left helpless, the affected states have started demanding amendments to the fca. About a year ago, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh wrote to the prime minster requesting changes
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Faceless Figures
The status of cancer data in India is as scary as the killer itself. The most recent data on cancer by the Indian Council of Medical Research is 13 years old. With little data on hand, battling cancer has become doubly difficult
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Classified ?
The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret
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System error
The death of India s cancer control programme and the rise of cancers
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Making bureaucracy work
India has two problems; one, bureaucrats and their complicated procedures and two, politicians who do not understand bureaucrats and their complicated procedures <br>
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The manufacture of popular perceptions of scarcity: Dams and water-related narratives in Gujarat, India
This paper critically examines some narratives of water scarcity in Kutch, western India. It argues that images of dwindling rainfall and increasing drought largely serve to legitimize the controversial