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Education for All! How far are we from the goal posts?

By Dayabati Roy | March 26, 2019October 25, 2019 by Dayabati Roy

How does the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (RTE), progress in India? Have the RTE Act begun to realize the goals that it set to achieve within a stipulated period? The answers seem to be not so optimistic as far as the education of the children in Sunderbans is concerned.…

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Is rural economy thriving in post-Aila Sunderbans, India?

By Dayabati Roy | January 20, 2019October 25, 2019 by Dayabati Roy

This question began to haunt me since a doctoral student who himself is from the Sunderbans told me that the cyclone Aila (2009) had helped their economy to prosper. Hearing this I was stunned. I never imagined that the cyclone Aila, which had devastated the economy of Sunderbans and uprooted thousands of people from their…