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What an American bug museum taught me about education in U.S. -- and India

  It was the second time I visited a temporary museum in Raleigh, a major city in North Carolina , south of Washington, D.C. The visit was primarily meant to be an educational experience for an eight-year-old girl I happen to know intimately. She displayed an unusual curiosity, but what interested me even more was the manner in which both young and elderly people, high school children and experts, seemed extraordinarily keen to tell children about the insects on display .
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From ram pyala to 125-kg soap: Martin Macwan 'unmutes' creative wars against untouchability

  In a deeply reflective conversation on Episode 13 of the Unmute podcast, veteran Dalit rights activist, lawyer, and founder of Navsarjan , Martin Macwan , dissected the anatomy of social resistance, the pervasive nature of caste , and the future of human rights movements in India. 
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Sustaining the shared: Lessons in resilience from India’s 100 stories of commons

For nearly a decade, the database at Land Conflict Watch has carried a certain bleakness. It is a cold, hard accounting of the costs of resource extraction, the toll “development” takes on the most vulnerable, and the ugly consequences of unchecked private consumption. Within this grim arithmetic of over 1,095 mapped land conflicts, one statistic stands out: nearly 80% of these disputes occur over common lands . 
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UN committee flags caste, tribal and minority concerns in India

Persistent caste discrimination , the marginalisation of Dalits , concerns over the rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples , and the treatment of religious and ethnic minorities are among the issues flagged by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in its latest observations on India.
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No commitment on watershed ban, no timeline: NAPi tears into FSSAI's response on junk food ads

  The advocacy group Nutrition Advocacy for Public Interest (NAPi) has rejected as inadequate and evasive the response it received from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to its August demand for a ban on junk food advertising , saying the government's reply sidesteps every substantive demand raised by the country's leading doctors and public health experts.
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The donation trail: From American schools to churches and temples

  The other day, I was talking with a non-resident Indian (NRI) in a middle-level city off the eastern coast of the United States. The tête-à-tête took place as we were returning from a religious ceremony at a well-established Hindu temple, where several hundred NRIs had participated, many of them actively.
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'Women's rights under coordinated attack': India among countries facing persistent legal gaps

The latest update to Equality Now's flagship Words & Deeds report reveals that women's and girls' rights globally are facing a "strategic and coordinated rollback," with hard-won legal protections being weakened or deliberately undermined, though the report stresses this backlash is neither inevitable nor irreversible .
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