Over 70,000 Transgenders In Rural India: Survey

Rural India has over 70,000 transgenders, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list with nearly 13,000, and West Bengal home to around 10,000, reveals the Socio Economic and Cast...

Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011

Over two out of every three rural households own a mobile phone, the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 has found. At the same time, 36 per cent of rural Indians are illi...

India Releases First Socio-Economic Census In 80 Years

The census contains details about specific regions, communities, caste and economic groups, Arshad Khan reports The Union government on Friday (July 3) released the socio-e...

How To Go About Skill Development In Rural India

With a meager 2.4 per cent of existent landmass, India has been a homeland for 17.5 per cent of total population of the globe. The distribution of Indian population is conc...

Neeraj Ghaywan’s Debut Feature Masaan, Which Won Top Two Awards At Cannes This Year, To Have Its India Premiere At The 6th Jagran Film Festival On July 1

~The Richa Chadha and Sanjay Mishra starrer is the opening film of the festival~

Mumbai, June 23, 2015: After wowing both film afi...

Caste Scars Gender Reality In K’shetra Village

Male child boom in upper caste families as girls’ ratio stands at 308Upper caste families of Mangoli Jattan village — having the worst gender ratio in the distr...

Cannes Film Review: ‘Masaan’

A ‘Promising Future’ prize in Cannes should help this narratively challenged drama of two families trapped in the strictures of India’s rigid caste system...

Why The Children Of The Poor Must Not Be Allowed To Work In Family Enterprises

The shocking decision of the Union Cabinet to legalise child work after school hours in family enterprises must compel us to turn an unflinching spotlight on one of our gra...