Simply Put: Life expectancy among minorities

Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims have lower life expectancy than higher-caste Hindus, study reveals

Difference among Dalits, Adivasis and higher-caste Hindus is comparable to the Black-White gap in the US

Why I remember DN Jha as an exemplary food historian

His defining work was about a food item whose reality is markedly different from the narrative that has been built around it

‘India needs to monitor mortality disaggregated by social groups to understand health disparities’

There needs to be data that links social groups to different behaviours and risk factors to mortality, says Sangita Vyas

Mewat Makeover: Will Haryana’s election laws be a catalyst for female education

For the first time in Haryana, 50 per cent reservation has been given to women in Panchayat elections

Population populism: Assam’s population control policy: A misguided approach?

The attempt on the part of the incumbent government, to project the Bengali Muslim community as a civilisational threat to Assam’s …

How 3 prior pandemics triggered massive societal shifts

Pandemics can alter a society’s fundamental worldview, upend core economic structures and sway power struggles among nations

The dispensable India: Data shows how DNTs, Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims bore lockdown brunt

These communities have suffered on most social indicators due to a mix of poor logistics as well as prejudice and ostracisation