Let’s take a tour through the immoral red light areas of your city. As we traverse through the bylanes of the dark streets lined with unabashed women, ‘selling their dignity’ for cash per hour, escaping the clutches of the police and entertaining men, blind your biases and numb your mind. If you can, wear on […]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s Budget speech mentioned the word “women” 13 times. It increased spending on women related-schemes by 18%, making that amount 5.2% of the total budget. However, one must remember that ~5% of the budget is earmarked for 48% of the population. It increased spending on women related-schemes by 18%, making that amount […]
Demonetisation has been a reality for over one month. The government decided to pull out 86% of the cash in circulation in an economy that functions almost entirely on cash. Ninety percent of all payments are cash, including the ones made at government shops for food. The government of Karnataka reportedly is forced to give […]
Anganwadi workers — the mainstay of India’s Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) for nutrition of children — have been protesting across the country for increased wages, regularisation of employment, social security benefits and removal of leakages in wages, which most of them still receive in cash. While increasing wages, and bringing this large workforce in […]
