Simi Mehta and Anshula Mehta There is a huge increase in gender-based violence across the globe and India as well during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The organisations work on gender issues, policy makers and other stakeholder has been raising their concerns. To discuss this important…
Simi Mehta* and Amita Bhaduri** As most developing countries, with India being on the path towards rapid growth and development, one of the most pressing issues that policymakers have to deal with is that of dealing with rising air pollution.…
Simi Mehta*, Anshula Mehta** The COVID-19 Pandemic, apart from exposing the glaring gaps in our healthcare system, has also highlighted the need for a gender lens in policymaking. All over the country, women have been disproportionately affected by the Pandemic…
Rekha Pande* Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. However, gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress. Inequalities faced by girls can begin right at birth and follow them all…
Simi Mehta*, Ritika Gupta** The inevitability of the birth of alternative development framework is inherent within the metabolism of the capital system. It is important to examine how the alternative development paradigm unfolds as a new epistemology out of resistance…
Manorama Bakshi* and Arjun Kumar** The coronavirus pandemic has posed numerous challenges to the development of the districts, one of the most important administrative unit, in India. There has been a push towards development at the grassroots level, for instance,…
Prof Utpal K De, Dr Simi Mehta COVID-19 pandemic has struck a huge blow to the economic growth and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of almost every country in the world. However, we see some resilience in the performance of…