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Oxfam India’s report highlights the extent of discrimination experienced by women, Muslims, and members of the SC/ST communities. Here’s how the pandemic impacted their access to the labour market.

Dalit civil rights activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan on why failure is an opportunity to build power, how systems of oppression affect well-being, and what healing looks like for individuals and communities.

Here’s how gender, caste, class, and more shape who can access public spaces in Indian cities, and why that needs to change.

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.