Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

A significant proportion of the global population is comprised of adolescents and young people, with an estimated 1.2 billion individuals

Sex ratio is perhaps one of the most important sociodemographic indices which reflect the socio-economic and cultural ethos of a country, more so with reference to the status of its women.

Mobility is generally defined as movement from one area to another and from one sector to the other for better earnings and employment as well as other purposes.

Decades of campaigning has led to signiicant changes and reform in the rape law.

The high female infant mortality rates (Miller, 1985), the practice of female infanticide (Krishnaswamy, 1988), the neglect of female children with regard to access to health services, nutrition (Sen and Sengupta 1983) and education (Mankekar, 1985), and the sexual abuse of girls (Bhalerao, 1985)

We live in an era of paradoxes and contradictions - the reality was never so multifaceted, the issues never so complex. Everything around us seems to be melting and unfortunately the new forms acquired by the congealing of the molten mass leaves us little to rejoice at.

Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women.