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Gram panchayats can mobilise frontline workers, nonprofits, and healthcare professionals to deliver palliative care at home. Here's how Karnataka is putting this into practice, and why other states should follow suit.

As governments increasingly adopt AI to improve public services, they must also track how it shapes decisions, affects citizens, and handles errors.

Landslides and floods that devastated eastern Nagaland in July 2026 exposed failures in the state's early warning systems, government relief, and media coverage.

Primary healthcare requires connection as much as services. A nonprofit in rural Rajasthan shows how effective care is relational, socially embedded, and systems-oriented.

India’s migrant workers face precarious housing in cities. A new initiative explores ways to make urban housing more inclusive.

In Khweng, Meghalaya, women pushed to be included in electing the village headman—and won a place in local governance.

A Revathi on embracing her identity as a trans woman, finding family in transgender communes, learning to mobilise the community, and acting and writing her heart out.

Scarce public institutes, limited seats, poor infrastructure, and high costs have made teacher education inaccessible in Jharkhand, especially for people from marginalised communities. There is a need for urgent reform and investment. 

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh are switching to sustainable cultivation methods, but delayed payments and shrinking subsidies threaten their commitment to carbon farming.

Here’s how grassroots organisations can run unconferences, a low-cost engagement model that removes institutional barriers and enables equal participation.