CCS researchers in conversation with TWCF on K-12 Education in low-income communities

Centre for Civil Society's Prashant Narang and Jayana Bedi were featured in Templeton Charity World Foundation’s blog to discuss their ongoing study on how school and non-school services pivoted teaching-learning methods in low-income communities during COVID.

Project Bolo English

The Bolo English Teacher Program was recently launched in Karimnagar, Telangana, in the presence of over 100 principals and teachers from government and private schools. During our interaction, the school leaders emphasised the importance of spoken English for teachers and students and encouraged other school leaders to participate actively in the program.

Policy Discussion on Air Quality in New Delhi

CCS in collaboration with Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) hosted students from the social entrepreneurship club of Sri Venkateswara College “ENACTUS” to engage in Policy discussion on Air Pollution. The interaction on 10 January 2023 revolved around air quality, tools of measurement, stakeholders engagement, shortcomings and scope of improvement.

Science & Technology

Mobile health or mHealth services have emerged as a solution to reduce cost of healthcare, improve access and provide a bouquet of choices to consumers of healthcare. But do Indian consumers have meaningful access to these services?

Our latest report attempts to answer this pertinent question and explores the evolution of mHealth services, analyses the relationship between technology and access and discusses factors that affect the usability and acceptability of mHealth among users.

Photojournalism Workshop

CCS in collaboration with Jindal University’s Centre for New Economic Studies hosted a two day workshop on documenting the lives of street vendors. This was attended by the Jeevika Fellows, in order to equip them with the best tools to document and display the lives of the oft-ignored hawkers of India.

इलेक्ट्रिक वाहनों के प्रयोग में संयम बरतने की जरूरत!

बिजली की लगातार बढ़ती मांग को पूरा करने के लिए वर्तमान में #भारत के पास कोयला ही सबसे बड़ा और उपलब्ध विकल्प है। और इससे #वायु प्रदूषण में वर्तमान की तुलना में और अधिक वृद्धि देखने को मिलेगी।

Indian Liberals | The Universality of Human Values

Written in 1952, Minocher R Masani makes a coherent, impassioned and prudent plea to safeguard universal human values.

He writes, "Neither militarily, ideologically, nor morally can one part of humanity can afford to write off any other. If it was true in the time of Abraham Lincoln that no nation could be half slave and half free, it is equally true today in this shrinking world that we cannot have a world that is half slave and half free." 

Spontaneous Order | The story told and made by Kantara

This article focuses on how the Kantara film raises some interesting questions about the regular conflicts between the forest dwellers and the State in reality, and how the climax hints at evolution of State and the society. “When solid institutions are built, individual rights are protected, and the rule of law exists, divine intervention is no longer needed to protect the people.”