Pushpa, one of the health workers counselling Anjana on five food groups with...
Understanding What Primary Health Care Means
80% of the diseases can be prevented or cured at the primary level only. And...
ई-श्रम क्या हैं?
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Is It Possible To Eliminate Tuberculosis By 2025?
दीदी, इस बिमारी से कोई बचता नहीं है। हमने तो बहुत करीब से देखा है। मुझे डर है...
A Heart-Wrenching Tale Of A 13-Year Old Mother In Rural India
It was 11:30 PM when I received a call from Reema’s* mother-in-law. They...
Balika Panchayat: Creating A Platform For Adolescent Girls
Introduction - What is a Balika Panchayat? The Women and Child Development...
Rolling With The Punches: Thinking About Labour And Leisure With Bihar’s Beedi Makers
"Butru humni ki business ke baare mein likh rahel [This young woman is writing...
Exploring Relationship With Religion
I am not a religious person. However, by virtue of growing up in a religious...
A Personal Account Of The Day Ladakh Became A Union Territory
Featured Image Source - Amar Ujaala We were sitting in the middle of a session by the founder of Snow Leopard Conservancy in Leh, Tsewang Namgail, when his teammate Jigmet Dadul, gave him the news about Ladakh becoming a Union Territory. In the middle of his speech,...
Dumbing Down Development
I was in class 9 when we learnt about covalent bonds. At least this was when I paid attention. The chemistry teacher, a slender woman in a stiff sari walked into the classroom and asked, ‘What did you bring for lunch today’. We were not sure if she really was asking...
Who Are The Katkari?
Raigad - The first capital of the former Maratha Empire, the land of captivating forts and free flowing streams; the home to picturesque Konkan belt where tribals stay dormant deep inside jungles, as if incongruous. Raigad in Maharashtra is surrounded by Thane and...
Inspiration To Be A Better Human Being
Until now, I have encountered most people being primarily concerned about growing professionally. From close relatives to friends and society, I have observed a common concern towards career. Only my mother and a few books had inspired me to be humane until I met...
Towards A Peaceful Revolution To Bring Dignity to Labor Migration
Featured image courtesy Pixabay My fellowship with Aajeevika Bureau started on March, 2019. It was the time when the financial year was soon to be over. Once I joined, I immersed myself into field visits and my journey as a fellow was 'on'. I was meeting migrants...
Skill Over Academic Degree
With Shram Sarathi, I have been working with migrants who have been given training on various skill-sets so that they can start their own enterprise or fetch better income using those skills. However, only a few trainees show the courage and interest to start...
Himachal’s Self-made Naturalists
During the one year I spent in Himachal Pradesh, I met several people, during workshops, at my organization or while traveling. Two people who frequented Kandbari are Vikram and Apoorva. What’s interesting about them, you might ask. For starters, they are a cheerful...
Surat And Its Migrants
Surat is the textile hub of India. It is also the center for diamond cutting and polishing. Most of the businesses conducted here are a part of informal sector and are predominantly owned by Gujaratis. The workforce for the diamond industry primarily comprises of...
Where Collective Strength Lies
Who’d ever want to pay an interest of Rs. 1200 on a loan of merely Rs. 500? A woman from the jungle village of Tirpania in Kharagpur, Bihar did so willingly, at least for a while. Until the concept of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) found its way to rural women in Bihar,...
Waste Pickers’ Tragedy…
This is Harsh. He helped us in distributing leaflets of medical camp in Sapera basti. Do you know where does your waste go after it leaves your home? How many hands does it change? Most us have limited knowledge about it. Either the Nagar Nigam (Municipal Corporation)...
Science On Wheels
I woke up early morning, at 5 am, reached the town of Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, in an hour and finally got into a private bus of Tamil Nadu. Interestingly, this bus had a portrait of a Tollywood superstar on the exterior. The sight of it prepared me for the short...
Alzirr, The Boy Who Fell In Love With A Ghost
About a thousand years ago, there was a massive earthquake eventually leading to a change in land formation. The Eurasia plate was drastically affected, it drifted into two-Asia merged with Africa and Europe close to North America. The earthquake and the climatic...
Not NaMo But RoKu As A Prime Minister
Baal Sansad (Student's Youth Parliament) Elections at MS Desuva School, Samastipur, Bihar India, as a democratic nation, was looking forward to Lok Sabha (LS) general elections 2019, its seventeenth. The elections were to elect 543 members into the LS. While there’s...
Pursuing A Problem : Patiently Persist Or Perish?
Teaching Math has been my primary responsibility for the last ten months. After all this time, I recently had my first encounter with a Math educator and researcher visiting the organization. Sneha, who has been working extensively on Mathematics education at the...