Category: Social Issues

  • How Healthcare Failures Expose Gaps in Social Accountability

    When healthcare systems work as expected, you rarely question who’s responsible for your safety or costs. Care feels routine, decisions appear justified, and trust remains intact. Problems surface when something goes wrong, and trust erodes. At this point, responsibility often feels unclear, and accountability becomes hard to trace. Healthcare failures aren’t limited to treatment errors….

  • An Interview with Jean Kelly Widner, Adoption Paradox: Putting Adoption in Perspective

    Welcome to our interview series, Jean. To begin, please share a small introduction in your own words so our readers can get to know you better. Bio: Jean Widner is the best-selling author of the award-winning book, The Adoption Paradox: Putting Adoption in Perspective. She is a US, domestic adoptee born in 1965 with a…

  • Ageing in Transition: Kinship, Reciprocity, and the Crisis of Filial Piety in Modern Times

    The paper explores how ageing affects people by analyzing modern kinship changes together with decreasing filial piety levels and senior population emotional health. The process of ageing which started within joint families and reciprocal intergenerational relationships now faces modification due to individualistic trends together with population mobility and contemporary lifestyle choices. Through academic research and…

  • Scripts of Heterosexuality on Instagram Reels

    In today’s day and age of digital media, social media has become an essential aspect of our lives. With around 825.30 Million internet users in India (“The Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators”, 2021), out of which 755.47 million people are social media users (“India: number of social network users 2015-2040”, 2021), it is sufficient to…

  • I Don’t Care: Rediscovering Compassion in Today’s Society

    How many times in the past few years have you heard the phrase “I Don’t Care”? Even more important the question “does anyone really care”. If you give it some thought it is kind of scary hey! Is there a way to make people care? I am really struggling with that question right now and…

  • Broken Promises: A critical examination of the Indian State’s approach to Caste Violence since Independence

    The paper attempts to critically evaluate the Indian State’s Approach to caste violence against specific communities in a caste-ridden society which condones such violence through its inaction and ambivalence. Through a review of the existing literature, an attempt has been made to investigate the structural nature of the violence which is densely woven into the…

  • UNDERSTANDING CASTE SYSTEM: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

    Synopsis: Caste is an important topic of discussion under the umbrella of social segmentation, especially in the context of India where the caste system exists even today. To understand any social concept, which in this case is caste, there are three theoretical frameworks in Sociology. These act as tools which help examine a subject from…