NEW DELHI – In the small village of Alwar, Rajasthan, eighteen-year-old Afseena sat on the mud floor of her home, flipping through the worn pages of her only textbook. She had read the same lessons ...

THE NEW road runs 1.85km (1.14 miles) to Khaira, a village of around 1,000 people in central India that seems straight out of an idealised depiction of rural life. Blue-uniformed pupils eat lunch in ...

India, or at least the ancient notion of it, was rooted in the philosophy of वसुधैव कुटुंबकम (the world is one family). India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity ...

The decades-long trend of rural-to-urban migration remains one of India’s most persistent development challenges. Understanding this phenomenon is strategically vital for achieving balanced national ...

India, Jan. 15 -- In India, agriculture is far more than a means of earning a livelihood; it is a way of life that has shaped ...

Mahatma Gandhi wrote in Harijan, in 1936, that India is to be found in its villages. Today, that still holds true: over 64% of the country lives in its rural areas. While the Mental Healthcare Act of ...