Understanding the motivations for individual giving is key to unlocking the benefits of this form of 'microfunding'. In May 2022, Plustrust and the Centre for Development Policy and Practice (CDPP) concluded a study on ‘mic...
Disinvestment of India’s largest insurer LIC has been the claim to fame for several months now. The initial public offering (IPO) of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is expected to be the biggest ever in the country’s history, w...
Philanthropy sector has always been seen as being dominated by large family foundations and over the recent past by donations made under Corporate Social Responsibility in India. The social sector funding or grants as they are called ha...
Unemployment in India is at an unprecedented high and this downward trend has been evident since 2016. Over the last couple of years, particularly during COVID times, this unemployment has hit the small traders and daily wage labour the...
AUTHOR’S NOTE (July 2021) An abridged version of this article appeared in DNA India on 14 February 2019. In the two years that followed, the electoral arena has been active, with parliamentary elections in 2019 and assembly e...
The fact that India was headed towards another COVID-19 surge became quite apparent by the second week of March 2021 as the number of cases rose steadily, as did the number of deaths per million by the end of March. Post-February, the p...
The tragedy around COVID continues relentlessly. Daily numbers have crossed 3.5 lakh infections and nearly 3000 people dead. India now has one in 7 active cases worldwide, contributing to nearly 15% of the disease burden. The bad news i...
41% of our population is below 20 years of age. This makes up for a sizeable chunk of the school-going population in need of education and skills for a robust workforce in the future. Nearly 1.5 millions schools were shut in India for 3...
Those of us who saw our country going through some bizarre moments while fighting COVID-19 last year, could never have expected a repeat of the farce. Readers will remember this time of the year, 12 months ago when people were asked to ...
The interaction between identity, history and community evolves spaces into contested or cordial ones. Nazima Parveen, in her book ‘Contested Homelands: Politics of space and identity’ describes how the perspectives around M...