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Lakshman Rao, who runs a makeshift tea stall is also an award-winning author of 12 published novels, plays and political essays. His works are based on real-life stories inspired from customers and other people around him.
Lakshman Rao, who runs a makeshift tea stall is also an award-winning author of 12 published novels, plays and political essays. His works are based on real-life stories inspired from customers and other people around him.
The National Association of the Blind (NAB) India Centre for Blind Women and Disability Studies focuses on changing lives for disadvantaged, differently-abled and unskilled women. From basics like operating a computer system to being able to detect cancer manually, the centre provides unconventional training to visually challenged women.
The Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in Delhi is dedicated to the global history of sanitation and toilets. The Time Magazine has called it one of the quirkiest museums in the world.
While many might be forgetting the classical dance and music culture of India, Aarohan, an NGO in New Delhi is making sure to keep it alive by taking it to children, who cannot afford to pay for the expensive classes. A dance form once enjoyed in royal courts, it is losing space in modern times, but the kids, with their new found knowledge are hopeful to revive it.
As per data from the 2011 Census, almost 73 pc of the working children in India are in the age group of 5-18 years. It’s not just that they are barred from school and robbed of their childhood, but they are also exposed to dangerous working conditions. Although Indian Constitution prohibits forced labour and the employment of children below 14 years in hazardous occupations, yet child labourers in India work in manufacturing of goods like matchsticks, tobacco and fireworks. Today, as we observe the World Day Against Child Labour, it is only in the hope of a better future and with the aim to implement this year’s agenda, ‘to improve safety and health of the children’.
An eventful year for India again in 2017, here are the main highlights. At Media India Group, we put our best endeavors to bring you in-depth analysis from India and Europe and will continue to do so in the year to come. Wish you all a Happy New Year!
Project Disha, launched in 2015 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and initiated by IKEA Foundation, aims to lead women towards better employability. With an objective to include women in a male dominated work-sphere and bridge the gender gap in labour force participation in India, Disha is skilling women and making them ready for jobs and also helping them establish small businesses, that go beyond stitching and handicrafts. Clement Chauvet, chief, skills and business development at UNDP, talks to MIGTV about the project’s target of improving lives of one million women in three years. Since its inception a-year-and-a-half ago, Disha has been able to impact the lives of 50,000 women, while overcoming various challenges that persist in a society still influenced by various restricting social norms and traditions.
As the nation has been reeling from increased cases of violence against women, MIGTV interviewed Colin Gonsalves, founder and director of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), a network of advocates and professionals that offers legal assistance to advance human rights in India and the sub-continent.
The journey of Aarohan, an NGO providing free education to underprivileged children in the Indian capital New Delhi, started way back in 2005. Since then, with the help of various individuals and organisations, Aarohan has been able to transform the lives of thousands of children, who would have otherwise become victims of child labour.
To generate awareness for rare diseases, Tanushree Nandan and Samaresh Das are out on a journey from Kolkata’s iconic Howrah Bridge to London’s Tower Bridge.