Ekalavya Hansaj - Headline Row

The Cost of Honour: Inside India’s Honour Killing Belt in Haryana, Rajasthan, and Western UP

Ekalavya HansajJune 4, 2025June 4, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajJune 4, 2025June 4, 2025014

India’s honour killing belt – spanning Haryana, Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh – has been the site of a horrifying surge in murders justified as protecting family...

Social Justice & Inequality

Digital Welfare Divide: Aadhaar-based Exclusion Killing India’s Poorest

Ekalavya HansajJune 1, 2025June 1, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajJune 1, 2025June 1, 2025013

India’s Aadhaar digital ID was sold as a tool to deliver faster, cleaner social welfare and yet it resulted in a digital welfare divide. By 2021, a...

Human Rights & Civil Liberties

The Invisible Women: How Domestic Workers In India Are Exploited And Abused without rights

Ekalavya HansajJune 1, 2025June 4, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajJune 1, 2025June 4, 2025023

Image: A child domestic worker washing dishes in India. Millions of women and girls toil as home helpers – often unseen and unprotected by law...

Environmental Justice Human Rights & Civil Liberties

Shocking Urban Slum Fire Evictions: Bastis on Fire Exposes Disturbing Pattern

Ekalavya HansajMay 28, 2025May 28, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajMay 28, 2025May 28, 2025017

India’s booming cities are under siege not only from rapid development but also from a disturbing pattern of urban slum fire evictions. In recent years, a...

Corporate Accountability Education & Youth Futures Social Justice & Inequality

Disturbing Findings: Private School Caste Discrimination Exposed in India’s Admissions

Ekalavya HansajMay 27, 2025May 27, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajMay 27, 2025May 27, 2025039

For millions of Indian families, admission to a private school is a ticket to quality education and opportunity. The Right of Children to Free and...

Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Digital India Surveillance Threat: How Governance Became a Privacy Risk

Ekalavya HansajMay 9, 2025May 9, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajMay 9, 2025May 9, 2025042

India’s “Digital India” revolution promised efficiency, inclusion, and transparency. It built a sprawling infrastructure: a unique biometric ID (Aadhaar) for over a billion people, digital...

Policy & Governance

Child Malnutrition: India’s Failing Battle Against Child Hunger

Ekalavya HansajMay 9, 2025May 9, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajMay 9, 2025May 9, 2025050

Despite decades of high economic growth and numerous government schemes, child malnutrition rates in India remain among the world’s worst. The latest National Family Health...

Policy & Governance

Banking on the Brink: India’s NPA Crisis and the Shadow of Political Cronyism

Ekalavya HansajMay 8, 2025May 8, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajMay 8, 2025May 8, 2025053

In recent years, the NPA crisis in Indian public sector banks has dominated headlines and boardrooms alike. A century of public banking, once a pillar of India’s...

Policy & Governance

The Underbelly of Ujjwala LPG Scheme: Rural Women Bear the Real Cost of the Free LPG Scheme

Ekalavya HansajMay 8, 2025May 8, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajMay 8, 2025May 8, 2025025

The promise of the Ujjwala LPG Scheme Yojana was simple yet powerful: free LPG connections and cylinders for poor rural women, ending the drudgery of...

Policy & Governance

Vanishing Forests: Compensatory Afforestation Fraud Is Killing India’s Green Cover

Ekalavya HansajMay 7, 2025May 7, 2025

by Ekalavya HansajMay 7, 2025May 7, 2025054

India’s vanishing forests are shrinking in real time, even as millions of dollars meant to replace them vanish into bureaucratic black holes. In theory, every...