2017-01-31T03:36:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Since the late 1970s, the term ‘empowerment’ has been liberally applied by academics and aid workers in the English-speaking world, including in social services, social psychology, public health, adult literacy and community development. The field of international development has also embraced the term enthusiastically and the idea of empowerment features [...]
2017-01-31T03:36:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
Women have had a long history of being discriminated against and exploited in Indian society. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment introduced measures to reverse these indignities. Yet, there remains strong resistance against their participation in the public sphere. […]
2017-01-31T03:37:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
‘Udta Punjab’ by Anurag Kashyap has brought the crisis of drug abuse that has gripped the State into mainstream discourse. The movie provides rare glimpses of the extent of the menace that affects all, without the bias of gender or class. The following section provides succinct previews about the worsening [...]
2017-01-31T03:37:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
As per the ‘State of the World‘s Children 2015’ report published by United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the level of children who are underweight, stunted and wasted are 44, 48 and 20 per cent respectively. However, this Report is based on 2005-06 data of National Family Health Survey-III [...]
2017-01-31T03:38:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
For all of us in the 21st century, Bastar is a landscape of forests, tribals and a bloody battleground for security forces and the armed insurgents known as Maoists. One way, it is a landscape of perceptions. Unless one ventures into this area in Chhattisgarh. From Jagdalpur to Dantewada, the road [...]
2017-01-31T03:38:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, FP & IR|
There has been a tectonic shift in the global geopolitical economy, to which powers such as the U.S., China and Russia have responded. However, India is yet to formulate a worldview even as Asia, after a gap of 260 years, is again set to become the centre of the world. [...]
2017-01-31T03:38:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, History|
Gandhi’s movement, a century ago, was a political campaign operating in a more hostile environment than today’s. Yet it brought lasting reform without alienating the opposition Our nationalist mythology has painted the Champaran movement as an outright revolt against an oppressive colonial government and business interests. But in fact, there [...]
2017-01-12T07:47:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
World Bank cuts India’s FY17 growth forecast to 7% The World Bank has lowered its growth forecast for India to 7 per cent from 7.6 per cent in 2016-17, citing a slowdown in consumption and manufacturing due to demonetisation and an ongoing decline in private investment and credit constraints due [...]
2017-01-31T03:41:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Society|
“Education is not solely an academic pursuit; it is a pursuit of moral wisdom.” Young monks study in their school inside Thikse Monastery in Ladakh. […]
2017-01-12T07:03:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Daily Current Events|
Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PKVY) On the sidelines of the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention,the PM has announced a scheme to skill Indian youth seeking jobs abroad. […]
