Category: Social Issues

  • Education for Marginalized Women in India – Explained

    Marginalized women in India face innumerable challenges when it comes to their education, with 165 million women over the age of 15 years still deprived of education and with only 1 in 100 girls reaching the final standard within their schooling. The 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India establishes free and compulsory education for…

  • Vaccine Diplomacy and its Consequences for India

    The world has been going through a very rough and uncertain period since the onset of the COVID-19 disease back in March 2020. With destabilizing economies, increasing and worrying levels of unemployment in the population and now millions of people dying due to lack of oxygen it is one of the biggest health emergencies we…

  • Sexual Violence and Caste System: Attacks on Dalit Women

    The caste system in India is the basis for the hierarchical division of society and the elements of it facilitate inequality. Attempts have been made to define the institution but due to its variance in society, a concrete definition is yet to be reached. M.N. Srinivas describes the caste system as “a hereditary, usually localised…

  • Understanding Khap Panchayats ( Sociological Perspective )

    ABSTRACT: Khap Panchayats, which are community-based social institutions governing aspects of social and cultural life in certain parts of north-western India, have been quite long-standing socio-political institutions. Tracing the development of this institution is incomplete without a thorough examining of its socio-political intricacies. This article is going to focus on the history as well as the political…

  • Why Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Needs to be Recognised as the True Father of the Nation

    In India, it is almost impossible to imagine one not having heard the name of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He, who is widely regarded as the ‘father of the nation’ in India had been elevated to the title of a ‘Mahatma’ or a ‘great soul’. Having followed the path of non-violence and Satyagraha, he was recognised…

  • Caste Discrimination: Gandhi and Dr BR Ambedkar

    The issue of caste has been central to the nation of India. The attempts to highlight the issue perhaps best-found voice in the Constituent Assembly debates where Dr. BR Ambedkar voiced the concerns regarding discrimination and prejudices on the base of caste and ensured during the making of the constitution the ideas of ‘equality’ and…

  • A Social Fact, that will not be sui-generis

    The election manifesto of the ruling party at the centre, for the upcoming Kerala assembly election, promises to bring in a law against love Jihad, the term taken to refer to a deliberate campaign that uses love to convert Hindu (and Christian) women to Islam. The latest state to bring in a law that penalises…