Early breastfeeding practices in India: Missing link with institutional deliveries

India has increased institutional delivery rates to reduce maternal mortality, neonatal mortality

Early breastfeeding practices in India: Backwardness cuts through social spectrum

Children born in Goa (75.4 per cent) had the highest rate of early breastfeeding in the country, followed by Sikkim (69.7 per cent) and Odisha (68.…

Wealth, inequality and children’s right to survival in India

The National Family Health Survey – 4 shows how economic inequality has a direct effect on stunting and wasting of India’s children

नए हाथों में लोकतंत्र की बागडोर कितनी सुरक्षित?

देश के पांच करोड़ से अधिक बच्चे 18 वर्ष की सीढ़ी पर कदम रख �…

First-time voters: A narrative about to change

Over 52 million children have come of age and would cast vote for the first time. But they have been victims of malnutrition, injustice and …

MP elections: Half glass empty for children in manifestos

Here’s an analysis on how inclusive BJP and Congress are about matters concerning citizens who are supposed to be mature voters once they …

Care of the pregnant: Half-hearted attitude

The first 1,000 days of life offer the window of opportunity to reduce maternal and child mortality. It’s time India made the most of it 

How economic inequality is widening in today’s India

The 21st century has witnessed development with a yawning gap where wealth is concentrated in a few hands

For India, the fight at WTO will be about food security

India needs to find a permanent solution to the problem of public stock holding, as it is a matter of survival for hundreds of millions of people

बर्बर हो जाने का संकेत तो नहीं भीड़ हिंसा!

भारत में “भीड़ के द्वारा हिंसा” कोई नया घटनाक्रम नहीं…

बीमारियां हैं खुदकुशी का बड़ा कारण!

15 वर्षों के दौरान देश में 3.85 लाख लोग विभिन्न बीमािरयों के…

जर्दायुक्त मसाला और भारत में बचपन

अध्ययन से पता चला कि वंचित तबकों के लगभग 325 परिवारों वाले…

बजट 2017-18: कर, रोज़गार और कृषि के अंतर्संबंध

कोई भी बजट वैश्विक सन्दर्भों को नज़रंदाज़ करके समझा नहीं �…

Troubled by illness, 385,000 people committed suicide between 2001 and 2015

At least four per cent of India’s population suffers from poverty because they have to incur huge expenses for treating their illness

India growth story marred by disturbing inequity

68th Round of NSSO makes it amply clear that the wave of economic growth has not percolated down from the 0.003 per cent of population of ruling …

The flip side of agricultural growth in Madhya Pradesh

Agricultural growth rate figures in the state appear to be unrealistic if one considers farm suicides and increase in number of landless farm …

Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

Food security bill forgoes nutrition security

The bill will ensure food for millions of hungry Indians. But has the government identified them?

Rs 16 lakh crore

This is the least value of "unproductive" work done by women in a year in India, and it is close to government's annual budget

More than a Policy, Children Need Commitment!

Crèches have multiple benefits along with provided proper care to children in the absence of alternate adult care-givers being available …

Tuberculosis India-2014

Tuberculosis is no longer a disease afflicting only the poor. Its thrives on deprived/distorted lifestyle and on the offshoots of the so-called …