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International Women’s Day -2021
8 Mar 2021
International Women’s Day -2021 is very special for CASA. It’s a delight to announce, CASA with the support of the Church of Sweden has launched an exclusive Gender Desk to emphasise the importance of Gender Justice work. CASA has been working for Gender Justice all throughout and across our constituencies in all these years. Gender Desk comes to add vigour […]
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Overcoming Gender and Poverty Barriers
Poverty has been an inevitable problem in India since the beginning of time. The increasing problems of poverty caused by overpopulation and the unequal distribution of wealth among the people have led to a huge impact on the life of millions in the rural as well as the urban area. A person has to acquire […]
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Impact of Climate Change on Women
16 Jan 2021
Climate change is a prevailing problem globally whose hazardous repercussions extend beyond the environment. Shrinking glaciers, extinction of plants and animal species, mutation, rise in the Earth’s average temperature and triggered seasonal fluctuations, are some of the impacts of climate change that have already grabbed the headline. Certain early predictions pertaining to climate changes had […]
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#MeToo #TimesUp – The 21st Century Women Mutiny
12 Oct 2018
“Because I was shamed and considered a ‘party girl’, I felt I deserved it. I shouldn’t have been there, I shouldn’t have been ‘bad’. #metoo,” tweeted a young victim of sexual harassment. By Prerna Lall Interns – CASA Communications Women globally are telling their distress tales using the hashtag ‘metoo’, confirming that ‘she too’ […]
The Dreamers of Satna
5 Oct 2018
These women from a small district of Madhya Pradesh didn’t imagine that the fuel they use to cook in their kitchen would give fire to their dream- from homemakers to becoming entrepreneurs of a successful all women E-catering business. By Prerna Lall Interns | CASA Communications The women of Satna, Madhya Pradesh […]
Stephen Hawking, Javed Abidi proved the power of Special Abilities
27 Sep 2018
People across the globe condoled when two renowned personalities – theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Indian activist Javed Abidi – died earlier this year. Hawking who was bound to wheel chair for his life was lauded for his extraordinary academic excellence while Abidi born with spinal cord birth defect ‘Spina bifida’ was recognized for his […]
CASA COMPLETES 70 YEARS
29 Aug 2018
CASA marked its 70 year heritage by dedicating the day to the communities of rural India which worked hand-in-hand with CASA in their march for development and dignified lives. CASA marked the thanksgiving event at Cathedral Church of the Redemption located in the heart of central Delhi. The event held in March 2018 was attended […]
THE AGRO-TECH HAMLET
Change in the weather pattern had completely disturbed the cropping pattern but after installation of weather station, we get to know about weather behavior in advance, it helps in taking all possible measures to protect the crops. By Md Mahfooz Alam Intern – CASA Communications When an automatic weather recording station was installed in a […]
A NEW WAVE: Farmers of Tipli
To try to describe Tipli and leave out technology – as the English say – is like trying to present Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ and leave out Hamlet himself. By Isha Banerjee | Reporter – CASA Communications This is a real story of a village that could not be easily Googled nor was ever heard […]
ADAPTATION – WHAT IS THE LIMIT?
Given these trend, it is difficult to imagine the world 50 years from now. To what extent we will keep on adapting. We might survive biologically but difficult to develop ourselves in an integrated way. By Anita Kukreti | Project Officer – CASA New Delhi With each generation the degradation of environment is increasing. […]
‘Super cyclone changed everything – even our minds’
The horrific memory of October 1999 – Odisha – still haunts people. In the recorded history of tropical cyclonic storms, the strongest cyclone ever, with respect to intensity and the scale of destruction it caused, hit the coast of Odisha on 0ctober 25, 1999. By Saurabh Kumar Intern – CASA Communications “Super cyclone […]
…And Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava becomes Premchand. More than that, it still happens
17 Aug 2018
What if I ask you “the real name of Premchand”? Yes, Premchand- one of the most revered novelist is not known to us by his original name which is Dhanpat Rai Shrivasatva. He adopted this pen name to conceal his identity from British officials at a time when speaking up against social problems especially if it […]
