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Celebrating May Day in the Indian City: Changing Work and Changing Workers

May 1, 2019

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...

Why an Urban Job Guarantee Scheme is Not a Bad Idea

Mar 15, 2019

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...

Picking up the Pieces: Helping Kerala Rebuild

Jan 8, 2019

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...

The Homeless In Delhi Aren’t Just Deprived Of Shelter, But Their Identity Too

Oct 10, 2018

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...

Transform to Transc(end) Politics of Gender

Aug 15, 2018

While we celebrate our 71st Independence Day today, the third gender is yet to come to terms with the essence of ‘freedom’ and ‘independence’. The question is how free are we if Transgender People are still denied their social, economic and political rights,...

Youth Using the Power of Media for Positive Change in Delhi Slum

Aug 13, 2018

Until the lions have their own historians, History of the hunt will always be glorified by the hunters – Chinua Achebe What is participatory knowledge? When most of the times communities and civil society organizations depends on the external researchers as the source...

A Tryst with (en)light(enment) in the 21st Century Rural India

Aug 1, 2018

How does it feel to imagine our cities without electricity? Imagine your neighborhood getting enveloped by darkness as the day starts setting on you! Suddenly, the outside space becomes unavailable for any use and you are compelled to contain yourselves within your...

And they said, ‘Say no to plastics’

Jun 25, 2018

On the account of International Yoga Day, Fellows of Yes Foundation currently interning at Indo-Global Social Service Society carried out a huge rally on the roads of Baljeet Nagar in the late afternoon under the umbrella of Swaccha Bharat and Ideologies of IGSSS....

If you cannot Reuse it, Refuse it.

Jun 4, 2018

On June 05, we are celebrating World Environment Day, 2018, with the theme of “Beat Plastic Pollution”. India has been chosen this year's edition of World Environment Day which will focus on spreading awareness and urges government, industries, communities and...

Taking Democracy to the Grassroots

Jun 1, 2018

Context to 74th Amendment in India 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...