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India's mandatory CSR impact assessment framework risks rewarding what is easy to count rather than what creates lasting change.

Learn about the history of the mental health legislation in India, and see where state-wise implementation of the 2017 Act is falling short.

Sikkim is replacing dhupi in its reserved forests with ecologically beneficial trees. To avoid another monoculture, it can learn from its own history.

Dalit rights activist Martin Macwan tells us about the interactions that shaped his activism and the challenges he encountered during his life's work in social justice.

Leveraging AI has helped two climate nonprofits offer more targeted, scalable, and accountable interventions. Here's how.

Grants alone cannot take social enterprises to scale. A mix of grants, guarantees, and commercial debt can help them build creditworthiness and unlock the capital they need to grow.

Building the capacity of panchayati raj institutions means strengthening the ecosystem around gram panchayats, from women’s collectives to frontline workers.

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.