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ASHA workers, India’s frontline health workers, handle a range of tasks: from fever surveillance, antenatal care to accompanying pregnant women to healthcare facilities. The bulk of India’s healthcare data is generated and maintained by these frontline workers. For this, they are paid an honorarium which is barely enough to make ends meet.
Despite a budget that exceeds some States, the BMC has failed to address a chronic civic issue that has cost the city several lives.
If there is one common thread that runs through the six-month tenure of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai – which ends today – it is that he treated his Chief Justiceship as a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ story. If there was some long-standing precedent that he did not like, he used his powers as the master of the roster to overturn it…
“’Christmas Is to Christians What Diwali Is to Us’: What Today’s India Can Learn from Gandhi”; “To Those Who Persecute Christians”; “Sangh Scares Off Santa: A Christmas of Fear”: A sustained hate campaign drives this violence, portraying Christians as threats to Hindu culture. Anti-Christian propaganda has caused a 500% surge in attacks over the decade.
“Whose Life Counts? Anjel Chakma’s Death and the Idea of India Today”: Constitutional values endure not because they are written down, but because citizens insist on enacting them. Anjel Chakma’s death demands such insistence, not only as mourning, but as constitutional vigilance. Also: “In Memory of Anjel Chakma, a Candlelight Vigil in Delhi”.
“The House That Parveen Fatima Built: How the Spark was Lit for Anti-Muslim State Retribution in Modi’s India”: On how the Uttar Pradesh Government demolished the family home of a Prayagraj activist, who spent 21 months in jail for no crime. Also: “Her Home was Destroyed by the UP Government. She Went on to Track 53 Punitive Demolitions”: Interview with Afreen Fatima, his daughter.
Women continue to be treated as instruments to serve demographic goals rather than as individuals who have personal freedom.
These women also constructed communities of women that help us imagine a friendship that is not singular or possessive but rather infinitely expansive.
“This Is Not a Ceasefire: The Israeli Genocide Continues”; “A Moment of Hope in Gaza”: On December 25, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school in Gaza. Throughout the last two years of their studies, they risked assassination, injury, arrest, imprisonment and torture.
As the unifying influence of the war fades, Iranians of all walks of life find themselves faced with unresolvable economic deprivation and disparity while the beleaguered State grapples with the boundless avarice of the American empire and its cronies. Iranians need to decouple the defense of the country’s sovereignty from the struggle for social justice and civil liberties.
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