Society and Culture

Rights, caste, gender, cities, culture and everyday India.

Team PublicSlate12 Sep 2026

Women's Path to Political Power Has Stalled, New UN Report Warns

UN Women and UN DESA's 2026 Gender Snapshot, released on September 17, focuses on leadership and shows that global progress toward equal political representation for women has lost momentum rather than continued advancing. The findings arrive at a moment when several other UN reviews are also warning that many countries are falling behind on broader social d

Team PublicSlate28 Aug 2026

World

Mamdani vs. the Sangh: Why an RSS Event at Madison Square Garden Has Split New York's Indian Diaspora

New York's first Indian-American mayor is publicly opposing a Madison Square Garden gathering headlined by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat — a clash that has turned a diaspora cultural event into a proxy fight over what "Indian identity" means abroad.

Team PublicSlate14 Aug 2026

Society and Culture

Why Even Religious Societies Are Having Fewer Children

Falling birth rates are reaching even deeply religious societies, revealing how economic pressure and modern life are reshaping one of humanity's oldest institutions.

Team PublicSlate11 Aug 2026

SOCIETY & CULTURE · RESEARCH · DEMOGRAPHY

India Is Ageing Before It Gets Rich

India is approaching a demographic transformation that could reshape its economy, families and villages. A new white paper by Transform Rural India projects that nearly one in five Indians could be aged 60 or above by 2050, with almost 70% of the country's elderly living in rural areas. The numbers reveal a problem much larger than pensions or hospitals: Ind

Nikita Kaul09 Aug 2026

Society

The Children Who Sleep While Their Parents Work

A city's convenience runs on someone else's sacrifice. We just never ask whose. When the clock crosses ten at night, most families are winding down. Dishes are being washed, school bags packed, children told it is time to sleep. But in the same city, in the same moment, thousands of parents are just beginning. Security guards are taking their posts. Nurses

09 Aug 2026

Society and Culture

The Last Letters: Why Handwritten Words Still Matter in a Digital World

The handwritten letter is becoming rare, but the culture surrounding it has not disappeared. In an age of instant messages, voice notes and AI-generated text, a physical letter carries something fundamentally different: time, effort, handwriting, material presence and permanence. Research suggests handwriting engages cognitive processes differently from typi

09 Aug 2026

Society and Culture

India Is Becoming More Multilingual. But Are We Preserving the Languages We Speak?

India's linguistic diversity is entering a new phase as education, migration, digital media and artificial intelligence reshape how Indians communicate. Government initiatives are increasingly promoting multilingualism, while researchers are examining how AI systems represent India's vast range of languages and cultural traditions. India officially recognise