Elections in India, one of the world’s most populous countries, evoke images like a social gathering or  a fun fair, in part due to the overwhelming numbers that participate in the process. In this country of over a billion people, 714 million voters will decide who heads the world’s largest democracy for the next five […]

The Union Budget, presented by Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal just days ago, has largely ignored women. However, this is the first time that the Women and Child Development ministry has separately allocated a set budget for Dalit and Adivasi women. While the process of Gender budgeting was introduced in 2005-06 in the form of […]