Simi Mehta, Anshula Mehta and Sunidhi Agarwal Female labor force participation rate across India from 1990 to 2019 has been declining. In the last decade, it has declined from 31% to 25% from 2005 to 2010 and further to 20%…
Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Dr Arjun Kumar India’s cities have always had a long history. The place that once belonged to the “wealthy middle class” now is a rather different place. There are almost 8000 cities in India and each…
Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Dr Arjun Kumar India is urbanising at a fast pace and is expected to house half of its population in urban areas by 2040. However, the increasing pace of urbanisation hasn’t been met by comparable planning,…
Dr M Ramachandran After the central government and state governments, the next level closer to people is the urban local body or village panchayat who are being constitutionally recognized under the 74th Constitution amendment of 1992, even though we had…
Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Dr Arjun Kumar “A very significant question faced by the urban planners and policymakers in the contemporary context is how to balance the twin objectives of optimizing economic growth and equipping the cities with physical and…
Zakia Soman “Patriarchy is a malaise that women and men have suffered since ages, sometimes knowingly and most times, unknowingly. It has been inflicted upon humankind from early barring the pre agriculture period of matrilineal social system. Patriarchy is a…