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A day in the life of a UPSC aspirant and safai karmachari who wants to ensure minimum wage and skill development for people seeking a life beyond manual scavenging.

Community-based collectives have the power to drive transformative social change. Here’s how civil society stakeholders can better support them.

Women engaged in manual scavenging continue to face systemic discrimination and are denied access to alternative livelihoods. Concerted efforts must be taken to rehabilitate them.

A survey of 30,000 Indians by Pew Research Centre reveals how religious tolerance and segregation co-exist in Indian society.

The changing landscape of women’s political representation, and its intersections with caste, property rights, and patriarchy.

Social inequities in Indian society are replicated inside its prisons.

The acknowledgement that well-being and mental health are affected by casteism and patriarchy is often missing.

Until communities stop excluding people based on gender, caste, class, and religion, efforts to achieve the SDGs will always fall short.

Prison Statistics India 2016, published in April after a long, unexplained delay, omits details about caste and religious identities of the prison population.

No external force can bring about real change in society. Only the community itself can.