Category: Social Issues
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A Closer Look at the Changes in India’s Juvenile Justice Act Post the Nirbhaya Case – Is It a Step Forward or Backward?
The Nirbhaya case of 2012 shook the entire nation and caused outrage at the injustice of the situation. It sparked a nationwide campaign for stricter laws and harsher punishments for those who committed such heinous crimes. As a result, the Juvenile Justice Act of India was amended in 2015, with the aim of providing better…
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20 Interesting Facts and Trends About World Population Growth
‘People’ are the biggest resource of a country and no country can survive without its people. In a very simplistic understanding, the number of people in a country or a region is termed as population. Population is a very interesting and important area to picturize the landscape of a country regarding its function, growth, stagnation,…
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Difference between Formal and Informal Sectors in India
The economy of a country is one of the main elements of development. The economy consists of processes like the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. These processes are operated differently in different sectors of the economy, which can be named the “formal and informal sectors” The functioning and operations of both the…
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Whether the state is correct in issuing Capital Punishment?
Capital punishment also called the death sentence is a process in which the state uses its power to condemn the actions of the convict by sentencing them to death. The first recorded instance being that of Hammurabi in the 18th Century B.C. Throughout history, the state has used capital punishment for a variety of crimes,…
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The Social Exclusion of Dalits with Disabilities
Abstract – This paper will be analyzing the social exclusion of three types of people- Dalits, people with disabilities, and Dalits with disabilities. Social exclusion is a very widely practised concept in India; It can be defined as the “denial of basic welfare rights which provide citizens positive freedom to participate in the social and…
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The Gendered Nature of Labour and Leisure
Women spend two to ten times as much time as men on unpaid care jobs across the world. This unfair and skewed distribution of responsibilities is associated with discriminatory gender roles. “Gender differences in unpaid care work is the missing link in the analysis of gender gaps in labour outcomes, such as labour force participation,…
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Education For All? Analysing Social Mobility and Academic Inequalities in India
India is burdened by distinct, rigid social hierarchies that mark almost all bureaucracies and institutions in the country, of which academia is certainly not an exception. For the longest time, the popular discourse has been that schooling and education in general, bring about certain benefits that ensure a secure route to upward social mobility (Froerer,…