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In an exclusive interview with Smitha Verma, the Vice Chair of PMNCH's Accountability Working Group,  Sophie Arsenault, talks about why it is important to invest in women and the way forward towards building resilient communities.  Since 2020, Sophie has been a member of Fos Feminista's Board of Directors, serving on the Advocacy and Governance Committees. She is Policy and Government Relations Officer for the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health. She is currently completing her MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming at the London School of H...

India’s plan to allow foreign universities to set up campuses here is an attempt to make the education system world-class, but three months into the announcement, is the country ready?

There couldn’t have been a more ironic opening shot. The first sequence of An Engineered Dream, which won the best non-feature film at the recently announced 67th National Awards, shows a prominent spiritual guru addressing a gathering of over a lakh students at a huge ground in Kota, Rajasthan. The kids talk of loneliness and stress while the guru stresses studies and success. The large-scale event sponsored by various coaching institutes stands testimony to the aspirations of parents and their ‘engineered dreams’ for their children. The irony isn’t lost on the viewer as Hemant Gaba,...

It’s a hectic workday for Mala Honnatti who has just returned from a 10-day mountaineering expedition in Ladakh. At her hostel in Shoolini University in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, this final year student is busy preparing for the last semester of her master’s in yoga and exploring her future career prospects. Honnatti is indecisive whether to become a yoga teacher, a corporate trainer or conduct trekking expeditions. “My mind is buzzing with ideas. So many choices and so much to do,” she says. Honnatti may sound like another young person on the cusp of graduation, except that at 67 year...