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The world of the youth changes fast, provides style icons and creates aspirations. Young girls take a selfie with the statue of Gandhi at Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram on October 2, 2016.
More than just demographic dividend: Investigating India’s youth bulge
India’s 345 million youth, anticipated to drive development, face elusive gains. Here is an analysis of their realities in the disruptive digital era.

Published : Oct 16, 2024 00:22 IST

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National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah addresses an election campaign for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election, in Kupwara on September 29.
Jammu and Kashmir

Kashmir’s split verdict: Democracy or division?

September 19, 1960: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign a treaty for the distribution of the Indus Basin waters.
INDO-PAK RELATIONS

The Indus Waters Treaty faces a perfect storm

Pakistan Rangers (in black uniforms) and Border Security Force soldiers during the lowering of the flag ceremony at the Attari-Wagah Border, the entry point to India from the Pakistan border near Amritsar, Punjab, on December 04, 2022.
Indo-Pak Relations — The Lede

Dark tunnel, elusive light: India-Pakistan diplomacy locked in a strategic stasis

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi addressing the third meeting of the International Conference of Tamil Studies inaugurated at the College de France in Paris on July 15, 1970. 

DMK at 75: How Karunanidhi’s vision collides with caste realities in modern Dravidian politics

Fishermen repairing their nets at Versova in north-western Mumbai. Much of Versova, which used to be a fishing village, is now an upmarket neighbourhood.   

Environmental degradation and urbanisation are pushing a 700-year-old fishing community to abandon their boats and nets

Yashica Dutt burst onto the scene in 2016, claiming to have “come out” as a Dalit in the wake of Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide.

The invisible ink of Dalit literature

An aerial view of Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, located in the centre of Mumbai. The State government’s latest proposal to redevelop it is extremely controversial.

The great Mumbai robbery: How prime land is being sold to vested interests on the cheap

The actor Sruthi Hariharan, with the actor Chetan Ahimsa and FIRE president Kavitha Lankesh, addressing the media in Bengaluru in October 2018. Sruthi’s allegations against the actor Arjun Sarja ground her career to a temporary halt.  

The conspiracy of silence in Tamil and Kannada film industries

Fans of the actor Prabhas celebrating his movie release in front a theatre in Khammam in August 2019.

Telugu cinema: A male stranglehold

The press conference by the Women in Cinema Collective in Kochi on October 13, 2018. It was a watershed movement in the feminist labour history of Kerala, where women forefronted themselves on the basis of their work. 

Lights, camera, litigation: Hema Committee report spotlights Malayalam cinema’s gender battleground

In Punjab, women with high marks in the IELTS exam are strategically navigating the exploitative patriarchal social system to flourish within it.

Decent, homely, and IELTS pass

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