India and Bharat, the two geographies or mentalities view each other with suspicion. For India, Bharat is about ‘khap-panchayats’ that kill daughters that dare stand up against the family pressure. For Bharat, India is where ‘homosexuality is acceptable’. For...

Migration from rural to urban has brought in an imbalance in the eco system of our Indian society. This was happening because of the obvious reasons; poor people migrate for better livelihood called as push of rural while rich...

It was a hot summer afternoon. My mom picked up the nutmegs from the floor. “What’s the red stuff, shall I throw it?”, I asked. She said, “No, we sell that by the kilo too!”. In the small town...

 The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers." -C. K. Prahalad During my visit to my maternal grandparents in  a village named ‘Dumrama’ in Bihar in summers 2015, there was a sense of  development and...