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Tapashi Praharaj
Opportunity for Livelihood to Financial Abyss: Reality check on MFIs
31 Oct 2021
“I had to take loans from three different organizations, namely Spandan, SKS and HDFC. I received Rs. 16000/-, Rs. 10000/- and Rs. 15000/- respectively from those three organizations. I was unable to repay the borrowed sum from Spandan so was compelled to borrow from SKS to repay it. But then I failed to pay 2 instalments of SKS. This led to collecting agents verbally assaulting me. They sat in front of my house with an intention of intimidating me. I begged them to give me some time, but all my prayers fell in deaf ears.
Sandhya Shaili, Manjeet Rathee
No Teachers, No Classes in the Schools of a Country that Boasts of Becoming World Guru…
30 Oct 2021
The present status of school education in India became clear from the title of the report itself -"No teachers - no classes".
Mariam Dhawale
AIDWA Supports September 27 Bharat Bandh Call
01 Sep 2021
This is a struggle of all Indians to unitedly reclaim India from the clutches of the Modi-Shah-Ambani-Adani unholy nexus! We shall Fight! We shall Win!
Indian Researcher
What Happened to Access to Digital Education during Lockdown?
31 Aug 2021
More than 38 per cent of school-going children had no access to smart-phones in rural India. This divide is further pronounced by the type of school management.
Satarupa Chakraborty
COVID-19 Lays Bare Exploitation and Struggles of Domestic Workers
30 Jun 2021
In India, the labor of millions of women domestic workers is not recognized, depriving them of labor rights, formal terms of employment, and respect.
Solidarity with Survivors of Sexual Harassment at Workplace
13 Oct 2018
AIDWA expresses its deep outrage over the sexual abuse and trauma that a number of women in the field of media have suffered. Some of them have broken their silence recently and come out with shocking complaints of sexual harassment and assault against leading media personalities. It salutes the brave women who have come forth to challenge the prevailing patriarchal norms which indict the victim rather than the perpetrator in such cases.
What Four Years of Modi Rule Mean for Women -The Worst of Times: 2014-2018
12 Jul 2018
In Hindu mythology, there is a monster called Bhasmasura. Whatever he touches is immediately reduced to cinder. But who could have thought that we would find such a Bhasmasura in the prime ministerial position today in India? During the four years while this prime minister has been in office, not only has he broken all the promises that he had made through his massive pre-electoral media campaign, but he has destroyed whatever he has touched.
Mariam Dhawale
AIDWA Holds Multifarious Programmes on International Women’s Day
13 Mar 2018
International Women’s Day (IWD) was observed for a whole week as ‘International Women’s Week’ in Delhi. A state level rally was organised jointly with 31 organisations on March 8 but AIDWA also held its own programmes in the units/districts.
Brinda Karat
Gauri Lankesh Could Not Be Jailed. But She Could Be Killed
06 Sep 2017
The cowardly, brutal killing of Gauri Lankesh has led to waves of spontaneous protests in different corners of India. Gauri was a voice of honesty and courage, she challenged the status quo in multiple ways as a single woman, as the editor of a weekly, as an anti-establishment voice, as the proud promoter and practitioner of Kannadiga language and cultures, as a vociferous opponent of Hindutva ideologies.
Ms. Subhashini Ali
From outrage to empowerment
26 Dec 2012
One thought, one hoped, it would not happen in this case but most unfortunately, it did. In all the outrage, the outpouring of horror, grief and anger, that devastating but familiar comment was made. A policeman standing near one of the many groups of those protesting against the brutal assault on a young woman in a bus in Delhi was heard saying: “She must have been doing something with her boyfriend that got those young men excited.”