Muslim Empowerment in Post-Election India
The Lok Sabha election result has rekindled hope for Muslims to participate in nation-building
Category Center for Human Dignity and Development
India Beyond GDP: Evaluating Ambitions versus Real Conditions
Is it not time to finally give up our pretences about India’s improved economic development, or will it take some existential global storm to wake us?
Breaking Caste Barriers: Creating an Inclusive Labor Market
The article addresses caste-based discrimination in India's labor market, highlighting the need for reforms.
Equal Opportunity Policy for Transgender, 2024
The Indian government has introduced a groundbreaking equal opportunity policy for transgender people. However, transgender individuals encounter pervasive social stigma and discrimination, leading to marginalisation on in various aspects of life, including education and employment.
Innovative Technologies May Address EVM Manipulation Issues
The integrity of elections now depends not on the integrity of the election officials but on the integrity of the software and engineers of 2 EVM manufacturers.
The essential task of a voting system is to make sure that a vote that is cast is cast as intended, recorded as cast, and counted as recorded. Many fear that the ongoing Indian elections, presided over by one of the least inspiring Chief Election Commissioners of the recent past, will fail to fulfil this task.
BJP’s touted economic prowess: All bark, no bite
Strengthening all economic parameters, holistic reforms, and focusing on demand and supply are sweeping platitudes, not policy.
Apart from distorting the Congress manifesto as a combination of impractical populism and pandering to Muslims, BJP campaigners have little to offer by way of constructive solutions to the economy’s problems of declining real wages in rural areas, massive unemployment among educated Indians and corporate India’s reluctance to invest, leaving the government to shoulder the burden of building infrastructure and other capital formation to generate growth.
Empowering Single Women: Paving the Path to Equitable Futures in India
On the fifth of August 2022, Ms Supriya Sule, Member of Parliament India of the 17th Lok Sabha, introduced a private members bill titled “The Protection of Rights of Widows and Single Women and Abolishment of Widowhood Practices Bill, 2022”. The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill held that an “ecosystem of neglect leads to millions of widows and single women being pushed into poverty, unable to guarantee a healthy life for themselves and their dependent children” and thus sought to safeguard the rights of widows and single women and to work towards a more equitable, accepting, and progressive society for them.