Month: July 2018

Spiraling Violence Against Women: Need for an Overhaul of Existing System

Priyanka Samy

• 27 July 2018
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The debate around sexual violence has grown in India with rising cases of unprecedented forms of sexual assaults against minor girls. The horrifying accounts of gang rape in Kathua and Unnao in early...

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'Happiness Curriculum' introduced in Delhi govt schools: In world obsessed with marks, studies can still be source of joy

Protiva Kundu

• 23 July 2018
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On 26 May this year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared Class XII board examination result. The next day, a number of regional and national dailies reported suicides by Class...

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Illicit Financial Flows: Damaging the foundations of justice

Sakshi Rai

• 17 July 2018
• Tax Justice Network
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The problem of illicit financial flows poses the greatest development challenge in present times. Illicit finance is generated through both national and international illicit activities and...

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Indo-Swiss pact on hidden wealth: Why it isn't helping in India's fight against black money

Neeti Biyani

• 16 July 2018
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The country has been witness to an emphasized narrative on black money in the past few years. The Indian government defines black money as “any income on which the taxes imposed by government or...

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How Taxes are Raised has an Impact on Gender (In)Equality

Neeti Biyani

• 12 July 2018
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Take any global measure, and in all likelihood it will point towards the same fact: women are disadvantaged relative to men. Women do much greater amounts of unpaid care – caring for children and...

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The Fiscal Deficit: What is so bad about it?

Malini Chakravarty

• 9 July 2018
• 1 Comments

We have all heard, time and again, that a high fiscal deficit is inherently bad for the health of an economy. This is repeated so often that most of us take it to be a given truth. We are even told...

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Darwaza Band is Not Enough

Kanika Kaul

• 5 July 2018
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“We don’t have a toilet at home and the public toilet near our house is locked after 10:00 pm; it is particularly difficult for my twelve year old daughter to manage, who uses a crutch.” says...

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How have social security pensions progressed over the past five years?

Inayat Sabhikhi

• 2 July 2018
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In January of 2013, I spent a month in the Sahayta Kendra at Khunti block, in Khunti district of Jharkhand. At that time, it was one of a couple of Sahayta Kendras in Jharkhand. Started by local...

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