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Sabarimala-The Battleground For Equality v/s Secularism

In this article, Rahul talks about how the Sabarimala decision by SC has ignited a debate about equality and religious beliefs. Reading Time: 3 minutes
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The Cost of LGBT Exclusion to the Economy of India

The essence of this article written by Viswas Viswanath is to look at the exclusion of the LGBT community through an economic lens rather than a socio-cultural one. It focuses on the influence behavioural economics has on this exclusion as well as looks at the crisis which could arise out of the “identity bias” attribute…
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An Inquiry into the Morals of Marriage

Bertrand Russell’s, “Marriage and Morals” was published 9 decades ago and yet the foundations of modern marriage are deeply embedded in the past which have invoked a certain moral bias. This article by Guneet Singh Sidhu juxtaposes Lord Russell’s arguments against contemporary marriage scenarios to examine the “modern marriage”.
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Coming South in search of a Bride

Despite Haryana’s infamous skewed sex ratio and terrible treatment of women, Malayali women are marrying Haryanvi men. S.Irudaya Rajan and Sharada Srinivasan explore the strange case of how women from Kerala are wedding men from Haryana in what often turn out to be disastrous marriages. Some trends seem astonishing at first, but begin to make…
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How Gender Inclusive is MNREGA in practice?

MNREGA mandates that a third of all workers under the programme should be women. But how gender inclusive has the implementation of the Act been? This column uses nationally representative data to analyse participation of women in MNREGA. It finds that while the programme has performed well overall in terms of providing opportunities to women,…
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