The IHD Blog
Child Marriage in India: A Persistent Challenge
17 Sep 2020
by Tanuka Endow and Swati Dutta
A girl studying in Class 9 in Kerala allegedly committed suicide for not being able to attend online classes as the family did not have any facility for her to attend the classes. Her father is a daily wage worker…
Deepening of the Digital Divide
29 Jul 2020
By Prof. Tanuka Endow
A girl studying in Class 9 in Kerala allegedly committed suicide for not being able to attend online classes as the family did not have any facility for her to attend the classes. Her father is a daily wage worker I…
Stay Home Stay Safe
23 Apr 2020
By Tanuka Endow
Stay home, stay safe. Or so is everybody telling us. What happens when a home is not a safe place? Covid 19 has come uninvited into our lives, leaving in its wake sickness, fatalities, fear, and a prolonged lockdown…
Home in a Pandemic: Return Migration in India
18 Apr 2020
By Bhim Reddy And Maansi Parpiani
The lockdown implemented in India from 25 March 2020 to curb social contact and mobility of people in order to arrest the spread of COVID-19, initially for 21 days, is now extended till 3 May with some relaxations in rural areas…
Rural-urban linkages in small sized Towns in Bihar
21 Mar 2017
By Tanuka Endow
We were wandering down the main market of Jhanjharpur, a small town in North Bihar with a population of just thirty thousand. The local market was sprawled all along the railway track, and had many shops—both pucca shops and…
SOCIAL
