New poverty line: Rs 32 for rural India, Rs 47 for urban India

The latest report by Rangarajan committee has added almost 100 million more people to the list of poor The expert committee set up by the Planning Commission last year unde...

How rural India spends

Contrary to general perception, rural people in India are spending more on commodities that are considered major urban expenditure, such as food, energy, cereals, pulses, v...

Marketers look beyond traditional mix as rural consumers flex muscles

With the Modi Government at the Centre, there is a buoyancy seen in the market. The expectation of ‘achche din’ extends beyond urban areas, with the rural hinte...

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & Democracy releases 2nd Edition of Annual Survey of India's City-Systems ASICS (2014)

New Delhi, June 10, 2014:  Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship & Democracy today released the 2^nd Edition of the...

World Malaria Day: Unplanned construction work leading to malaria increase

Unplanned construction activities, setting up of new industries and increased migration were leading to an upsurge in malaria cases in urban India, health experts have said...

Water Walkathon

A large number of women in rural and urban India don’t have much to celebrate on women’s day on March 8 Their day will begin as usual with a walk to fetch water...

The Day After Everyday or Krrish 3: Which will allow us a superheroine?

Less than a week after it was uploaded, Anurag Kashyap’s short film, The Day After Everyday, has had 1,205,910 hits (and counting). In over 21 minutes, Kashyap shows ...

Bill Gates Talks To Author Of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo

Bill Gates: How did you pick the particular slum and the people that you profiled in the book?

Katherine Boo: Although I’d been spending time in slums all ove...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...