Category Disability
By Alison Kentish The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day, March 8. The UN says young women remain particularly underrepresented in politics and disproportionately excluded from consultation on issues that affect them such as… Continue Reading →
This paper attempts to understand the larger meanings that interlink social spaces of Dalits women and COVID-19. It tries to foreground the following questions. How does it determine the realm of social distancing? Does it lead to a new world… Continue Reading →
Is India truly conducting the world’s ‘biggest’ COVID vaccine drive? Why the focus on the ‘Make in India’ tag?NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN India’s current national discourse is saturated with propaganda and disinformation — even with regard to critical areas like the COVID-19… Continue Reading →
Rise in suicides pushes Suga to tackle issue as major COVID challenge The pandemic has been particularly isolating for Japan’s older population, who are not used to communicating online.SHOGO KODAMA, N TOKYO — Telework and the lack of social gatherings during Japan’s fight… Continue Reading →
Dalit activist Shiv Kumar, co-accused in Nodeep Kaur case, has 2 fractures, 6 other injuries: Report The injuries are more than two weeks old, the medical report said. Kumar’s father alleged that the activist, arrested on January 16, was tortured… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI: In a landmark judgment to enable the disabled live with dignity and compete with others on equal footing, the Supreme Court has ruled that a person’s blindness or physical disabilities is no disqualification for appointment as Judge. In the process, a… Continue Reading →
Karnataka Agriculture Minister BC Patil has once again stoked controversy and said that farmers who kill themselves by suicide do so as their minds are weak and the government cannot be blamed for such deaths. Nolan Pinto BengaluruJanuary 20, 2021UPDATED: January… Continue Reading →
The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) expresses grave indignation and disgust at the brutal gang rape of a 15-year old girl with speech and hearing impairment in Madhubani, Bihar. The crime becomes all the more vicious, wicked… Continue Reading →
One in every 12 elderly person in the country have had depression About 75 million elderly persons in India, or one in two people above 60 years of age, suffer from some chronic disease, shows the first part of the world’s… Continue Reading →
Miss Payel Bhattacharya, was diagnosed with a rare disease von Hippel-Lindau or VHL. It is a genetic form of cancer. VHL patients battle a series of tumors throughout their life. VHL may occur in up to 10 organs of the… Continue Reading →