Category Center for Human Dignity and Development

Public Spaces, Private Burdens: Women’s Access to Urban Infrastructure in India

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Social Sector

Indian urban policy increasingly frames cities as inclusive, liveable, and gender-sensitive. Yet, this narrative collapses under scrutiny. Women’s everyday engagement with cities reveals a fundamental contradiction: while urban infrastructure is publicly funded and collectively justified, its design failures are privately absorbed by women’s bodies, time, safety, and unpaid labour. The Indian city does not merely exclude women incidentally; it is structured around assumptions that systematically marginalize them as legitimate users of public space.

IMPRI Desk
December 29, 2025

Beyond Access: Gender, Intersectionality, and the Law of Averages in Urban Public Services

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Society, Literature, Arts, Sports and Culture

Indian cities are often celebrated as engines of growth and opportunity, driven by expanding infrastructure and ambitious urban development projects. However, it can be noticed that access to public spaces and essential services is not experienced uniformly across social groups in such urban dwellings. This article reflects on a research journey that examines gendered inequalities in urban public spaces and services.

IMPRI Desk
December 29, 2025

Trump 2.0: Recalibrating Indo–US Relations

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Public Finances and Macroeconomics, Social Sector, Urbanization, Habitat, Transportation and Regional Development

The election of Donald Trump and the emergence of his "America First" ideology represents a significant challenge to the Post world war II liberal international order and its underlying premise that a rules-based global system benefits U.S. interests in the long run. Trump's "America First" approach, characterized by a mix of economic isolationism and an interventionist military and political strategy under constrained resources, created significant strategic unpredictability in global affairs.

IMPRI Desk
December 29, 2025

Khula and the Law: Reclaiming Muslim Women’s Right to Unilateral Divorce

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Gender Impact Studies Center

The Telangana High Court has reaffirmed that Muslim women can seek a unilateral divorce through khula without needing their husband’s consent, underscoring long-standing Islamic principles that protect women’s autonomy and ensuring Family Courts only verify and formally record the dissolution.

IMPRI Desk
December 28, 2025

The Uncounted Loss: How Bihar’s Fate Was Sealed Before Polling Day

Insights, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Public Finances and Macroeconomics, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, South Asia Studies Center, Urbanization, Habitat, Transportation and Regional Development

The Bihar results were out even before polling began: Bihar has lost, whoever the victor in the Assembly elections. With well over one crore women being paid Rs 10,000 crore by the incumbent government, supposedly for self-employment ventures, and promises of future fiscal support for such enterprises, the political economy of state handouts had been entrenched before polling began.

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
December 19, 2025

India’s Diabetes Crisis: The Alarming Rise Among Women

Insights, Agriculture, Food, Nutrition Security and Rural Development, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for Work and Welfare, Gender Impact Studies Center, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

There was a time when diabetes was seen as a man’s disease a byproduct of business lunches, middle age, and city stress. In fact, a generation ago, a man in his forties with a receding hairline and a growing belly was often seen as a picture of prosperity a symbol of success and comfort. But that comfort, as we now know, often came from a more sedentary, less active lifestyle.

IMPRI Desk
December 16, 2025

India’s Engagement in UN Peacekeeping Operations- Under Viksit Bharat Mission

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Policy Update

India, with more than 265,000 personnel, has served more than 49 missions since its independence, remaining one of the largest contributors to the United Nations peacekeeping.

IMPRI Desk and Bhaktiba Jadeja
December 11, 2025