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How Post-Harvest Losses Continue to Plague the Agricultural Sector

This research article analyses post-harvest losses in India by discussing its causes and impact on the agricultural sector specifically and the economy and environment at large. Post-harvest losses are incurred after harvesting but before final consumption and amount to a staggering 40% of the country’s produce. The article deliberates over the untapped potential of this…
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Sexual Violence, Military Impunity, and Women Resistance: The Case of Kashmir – II

After introducing the basic themes encircling Kashmiri Feminism in the first article, the second article of this series draws attention to the grave sexual violence and abuse committed against the Kashmiri women. This article aims to, first, underline the culture of impunity enjoyed by the Indian Armed forces and, second, show the impact of military…
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Book Review: The Globalization Backlash by Colin Crouch

This article is a critique of one of the most celebrated books on the concept of globalisation – The Globalization Backlash by English political scientist, Colin Crouch. It talks about the concept of globalisation and how it has shaped and reshaped the world. It also discusses the many contentions people hold regarding the aspects of…
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Resilience of Community Health Workers During COVID-19 Response

On the resilience of CHWs during COVID response and the recent strategy of GOI to combat the 2nd wave of COVID-19 in rural areas. 
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Female Genital Mutilation in India

Female Genital Mutilation/Circumcision is prevalent in 31 countries, including India. Two hundred million girls worldwide have been subject to this practise which goes against their fundamental rights. Though there is progress made on a global scale, India is yet to identify this practice as a problem as there is no law that identifies and corrects…
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Gender and Law: Reproductive Rights in Indian Jurisdiction

This article describes the recognition of reproductive rights as essential for women’s equality and has called for respect for women’s rights to autonomy and decision-making concerning pregnancy. The Indian Jurisdiction has developed a robust definition for ‘reproductive rights’ which reflect the term human right standards.
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Gandhi and Ambedkar on Parliamentary Democracy

India’s success in maintaining its status as a sovereign state may be credited with the parliamentary democracy it follows and the clarity in the separation of powers. However, the two most important figures in Indian history, Gandhi and Ambedkar, had distinct views on adopting a parliamentary form of government. Gandhi’s perspective could be defined as…
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COP26: Assessing Climate Action

Asish Singh underlines the optimism and gaps in the climate politics around net zero targets and climate financing leading up to Glasgow and beyond.
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A Choppy Road Ahead: How the Pandemic is Reinventing India’s Urban Mobility Crisis

India has always had its issues with urban mobility. However, the financial, behavioral and commercial trends triggered by the pandemic threaten to complicate these issues in an unprecedented manner. In the first of a series of essays on urban mobility in India, Sudarshan and Mukundan trace some of these complications to unravel the biggest challenges…
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The Para-movement

Time and again the world of sports provides us with a picture of what dedication, perseverance and hard work looks like. The rhythm of the game and the ease in flow of the players mars the blood, sweat and tears that goes behind putting up such a performance. It’s a game of mental and physical…
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How Conservation Attempts to Erase the Memories of Exclusion: The Past

In the first of the two-part series, Ashika talks about how conservation has in many ways contributed to exclusion in the environment space.
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The Macro View on Why the USA Ultimately Lost Afghanistan

At the end of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Washington torn between Democrats and Republicans frantically began finger-pointing. This article takes a macro, retrospective view. It vouches that the Afghanistan failure is rooted in a more central American tendency. Throughout the article, that tendency is defined and explored.
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