YOUTH4CLIMATE: Taking Actions Before it’s too Late
Story of Greta, the real star! Youth from all over the world are organizing themselves as a united force against climate change. Credit goes to Friday for Future, A Global Youth and children led movement was started by a 15-year-old Greta Thunberg from Stockholm, Sweden. She one day decided to stop going to school and […]
Celebrating May Day: Changing Work and Changing Workers
International Labour Day is celebrated on 1st May every year, it also is known as International Worker’s Day. Urban Indians are increasingly becoming distanced from the workers in their cities. In spite of being a public holiday in numerous states, we usually remain oblivious to the many gatherings and celebrations around us celebrating the international […]
Why an Urban Job Guarantee Scheme is Not a Bad Idea
The announcement of the Urban Livelihood Guarantee Scheme as part of the people’s progressive agenda, which eventually may turn into what many believe as a ‘common minimum programme’ of the Opposition parties during the Lok Sabha elections, has raised quite a few eyebrows. The declaration has been followed by a string of critiques on how […]
Picking up the Pieces: Helping Kerala Rebuild
Remembering the dreadful Night: “It was past 6 pm on that unfortunate day and was getting dark. As usual, we were busy with our routine work when we heard some exploding noise. It was a horrifying sound of our unfortunate tale that was about to begin. We didn’t know what was happening. We heard the […]
The Homeless in Delhi Aren’t Just Deprived of Shelter, But Their Identity Too
Earlier, cities were considered as an option to escape rural poverty but for the last few years these spaces are increasingly turning hostile to the casual migrants who come to the cities in search of employment. On the eve of World Homeless Day, an attempt was made to understand this complex system of urban poverty […]
Taking Democracy to the Grassroots
India is still predominately rural. It was only in the late 80s, early 90s that gradually our policymakers thought of cities as constituencies in themselves; constituencies that were rapidly deteriorating without a planned systemic state intervention, regulation and control. Urban centres, it was realized, play a crucial role in the development of a country and […]
Millet based mixed farming to cope up with the weather externalities
Millets have very rich source of nutrition and it helps to address the issues of hunger and malnutrition. Millets constitute one of the oldest forms of source of food especially in the tribal areas. Millet requires less water and even grows in less fertile soil, high temperature and erratic soil condition. Rayagada district comes under […]