Author: Smriti Gupta
Where are women in local government?
Dismayed by seeing very few women in district-level government prompts two young development professionals to find out why.
Perils of not having a birth certificate
One in 10 children under the age of five do not have a birth certificate in India. This makes them invisible to the system, unable to avail of state benefits. But one district in Madhya Pradesh is trying to buck this trend, as development fellows Sohinee Thakurta and Smriti Gupta have discovered.
Whose idea of development is it anyway?
For two development professionals a field visit to a displaced village triggered a series of broader questions about development. They share their dilemmas about how development is perceived and practiced.