Articles for Marginalised Communities

How Carbon Markets are Exploiting Marginalised Communities in the Global South Instead of Uplifting them
1 week, 6 days ago

How Carbon Markets are Exploiting Marginalised Communities in the Global South Instead of Uplifting them

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 10, 2024 17:00 IST - 9 MINS READ For Janni Mithula, 42, a resident of the Thotavalasa village in Andhra Pradesh, cultivating the rich, red soil of the valley was her livelihood. What we decide here will enable all of us, particularly those in the Global South, to not only take ambitious mitigation action but also adapt …

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India’s cities, their non-communicable disease burden
3 weeks, 1 day ago

India’s cities, their non-communicable disease burden

The Hindu  

The recent case where a Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus driver passed away after cardiac arrest while on duty, has set off discussions on rising poor health outcomes in our cities. The health burden in urban India Poor urban communities face a triple health burden: hazardous work environments, limited health-care access, and financial vulnerability during health crises, that are exacerbated …

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India's first girls' school and beyond: Jyotirao Phule's fight for equality
3 weeks, 4 days ago

India's first girls' school and beyond: Jyotirao Phule's fight for equality

India Today  

Jyotirao Phule, a social reformer, educator, and revolutionary thinker, played a very important role in India’s social reform movement in the 19th century. Phule, best known to have established India's first girls' school, worked to eliminate untouchability and the caste system while promoting education for women and oppressed communities. Along with his wife, India's first female teacher Savitribai Phule, he …

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Budget 2024–25: Empowering women, advancing social justice
4 months, 1 week ago

Budget 2024–25: Empowering women, advancing social justice

Hindustan Times  

The Union Budget 2024–25 epitomises the government’s commitment to balancing high capital expenditures with robust welfare spending. The budget marks a significant stride in promoting socio-economic development, with a strong focus on women's empowerment and social justice. The ministry of women and child development's budget has increased by 3%, from ₹25,449 crore in FY 23–24 to ₹26,092 crore in FY …

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Upskilling for an equitable future
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Upskilling for an equitable future

Hindustan Times  

A seismic shift in the fast-paced employment landscape is underway – one that demands a fundamental rethinking of how we approach workforce development and economic empowerment. Upskilling initiatives have emerged as a powerful catalyst for addressing this challenge, fostering an equitable future by empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds to acquire the necessary skills to thrive in the digital age. By …

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An interview with Jayant Rastogi, Global CEO of the Magic Bus India Foundation
7 months ago

An interview with Jayant Rastogi, Global CEO of the Magic Bus India Foundation

The Hindu  

For 25 years, the Magic Bus India Foundation has worked to empower young people from marginalised communities with life and employability skills and enable first-time learners and earners to realise their full potential to create a more meaningful and impactful future for themselves and their communities. “In 2023-24 alone, we have equipped 18,00,000 adolescents with life skills and enrolled over …

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Ashoka University row: How prevalent is casteism in Indian universities?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Ashoka University row: How prevalent is casteism in Indian universities?

Firstpost  

A video of students at Haryana’s Ashoka University purportedly raising casteist slogans like ‘Brahmin-Baniyawaad Murdabad’ has sparked a row. The menace of caste discrimination plagues the higher education system in India, with the recent deaths by suicide of students from marginalised communities further throwing the issue into the spotlight A video of students at Haryana’s Ashoka University purportedly making casteist …

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Ganges, Brahmaputra among major South Asian river basins to feel impact of climate change: Report
9 months ago

Ganges, Brahmaputra among major South Asian river basins to feel impact of climate change: Report

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, The alarming impact of climate change will be felt on South Asia's major river basins, including the Ganges, Indus and the Brahmaputra, according to a new report. The scale of climate change impacts in the Indus basin is overwhelming, undermining food security, livelihoods and water security, the report said. While currently there are no major water diversions in …

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Modi launches PM-SURAJ portal; to benefit marginalised sector
9 months, 1 week ago

Modi launches PM-SURAJ portal; to benefit marginalised sector

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the ‘Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan and Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan’ national portal and sanctioned credit support to one lakh entrepreneurs of disadvantaged sections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Interacting with beneficiaries of various government schemes, including Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes, and sanitation workers, PM Modi emphasized the government’s commitment to prioritise the underprivileged. …

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Empowering marginalised communities in carbon markets
11 months ago

Empowering marginalised communities in carbon markets

Hindustan Times  

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. India holds immense potential for transforming climate action by empowering marginalised rural communities and urban informal settlements within carbon markets. Appropriately designed financial incentives from carbon credit markets hold exciting potential for empowering marginalised communities economically and advancing climate mitigation opportunities. The strategies explored in this paper …

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How a landmark caste census in India threatens Modi’s grip on power
1 year, 2 months ago

How a landmark caste census in India threatens Modi’s grip on power

Al Jazeera  

The findings have the potential to upend the country’s politics, as marginalised groups demand better representation in public institutions. The findings from Bihar, one of India’s poorest yet politically significant states, have the potential to upend the country’s politics, with demands being made for a similar nationwide census, opening the doors for a revamp of the country’s affirmative action plans …

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Climate change discourse is dominated by middle-class white men – it must be intersectional
1 year, 8 months ago

Climate change discourse is dominated by middle-class white men – it must be intersectional

The Independent  

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Health as a human right for India’s tribal communities
2 years ago

Health as a human right for India’s tribal communities

Hindustan Times  

The World Health Organization Constitution and Article 25 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights consider the highest possible achievable standard of health as a fundamental right of every individual. Tribal communities residing in hard to reach areas are displaced from their land, deprived of forest produce, have low literacy and financial poverty, and poor access to the …

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INTERVIEW | Ashwini K.P: ‘Ambedkar’s views on gender ignored’
2 years ago

INTERVIEW | Ashwini K.P: ‘Ambedkar’s views on gender ignored’

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 01, 2022 10:35 IST Ashwini K.P., 36, is the first Asian to be appointed as Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance by the United Nations Human Rights Council. My mandate explicitly focusses on the rampant racism across the globe, and in view of this I will have to focus on …

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A rereading of Kerala modernity
2 years, 3 months ago

A rereading of Kerala modernity

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 22, 2022 10:00 IST Writing a decade ago, Nissim Mannathukkaren observed that the most progressive outcome of the communist engagement in Kerala was its ability to convert “culture” into a “cog in the movement towards a material understanding and transformation of society”. This book is Mannathukkaren’s meticulous and empirically rich response to attempts at studying Kerala using …

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Outreach towards marginalised shouldn’t be limited to just Hindus: PM Modi in Hyderabad
2 years, 5 months ago

Outreach towards marginalised shouldn’t be limited to just Hindus: PM Modi in Hyderabad

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party ’s outreach towards marginalised communities should be expanded and not limited to just Hindus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has instructed party colleagues at the ongoing national executive committee meeting, functionaries aware of details said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves towards his party supporters as he arrives to address a public meeting at parade grounds in Secunderabad, …

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"Speaking Truth To Power: Citizens And The Law": Full Text Of Justice MC Chagla Memorial Lecture By Justice DY Chandrachud
3 years, 3 months ago

"Speaking Truth To Power: Citizens And The Law": Full Text Of Justice MC Chagla Memorial Lecture By Justice DY Chandrachud

Live Law  

It is an honour for me to have been invited to speak at this lecture organised in the memory of one of the greatest legal minds India has ever witnessed – Justice Mohammadali Carim Chagla. Coming to the topic I have chosen for today – it is important to first ask ourselves what does "speaking truth to power" even mean? …

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National Overseas Scholarship: State must undertake vast expansion of scheme; will benefit nation in long run
3 years, 5 months ago

National Overseas Scholarship: State must undertake vast expansion of scheme; will benefit nation in long run

Firstpost  

For marginalised communities, modern education is a precious asset and a way for acquiring socio-economic mobility in an unequal society In the past few weeks, several students belonging to marginalised communities such as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have received offers to study in prestigious universities abroad including Royal Holloway London, Oxford University, SOAS, London, among others. For this purpose, …

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Indians from marginalised groups crowdfund for Western education
3 years, 5 months ago

Indians from marginalised groups crowdfund for Western education

Al Jazeera  

Dalit and Muslim aspirants seek help from strangers on social media to pursue courses at some of the world’s most prestigious universities. “So one of my friends and an ex-colleague suggested that since I have already done so much work in the field of human rights, I should try crowdfunding.” Rupwate set up a fundraising campaign on another crowdfunding platform …

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Higher studies and the marginalised | Ph.D. entry in IITs tougher for students from marginalised communities
3 years, 10 months ago

Higher studies and the marginalised | Ph.D. entry in IITs tougher for students from marginalised communities

The Hindu  

Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe applicants are half as likely to get selected for a Ph.D. programme at leading IITs in the country as aspirants from the General Category are. Data collated from a series of RTI applications, including from The Hindu, on the number of applicants versus the number of those admitted to Ph.D. programmes in the five older …

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Addressing Educational Inequality and Ensuring Inclusive Education: Lessons for India’s NEP from 2020 UNESCO Report
4 years, 4 months ago

Addressing Educational Inequality and Ensuring Inclusive Education: Lessons for India’s NEP from 2020 UNESCO Report

News 18  

India finally has a new National Education Policy, the first in over three decades. One would hope that the government would go slow with the process of rationalisation in view of clear evidence that the policy inflicts “pain without gain” for India’s most marginalised communities. It remains India’s only state with a multilingual education policy and also has a large-scale …

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