In the recent assembly elections, we were once again inundated with information about how much of a difference the women’s vote made to the outcome.

From helping women inmates in prenatal and postnatal stages, to vaccination of children and giving them pre-primary education, this is how prison authorities are looking after children who stay with their mothers inside jails.

It was the tragic death by suicide that has laid bare the daily trauma of the three sisters from a landless household married to an affluent family with demands for dowry from impoverished parents.

Education is accorded a high priority in development policy in most countries, including India.

Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.

The statement, tucked away in one of the many thick Agrawal Samaj magazines I had been perusing, made me smile.