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ARTICLES BY RUKMINI S

India fared much better on the Government Restrictions Index. Photo: Mint

Pew study says communal rift widest in India: 5 charts

4 min read . 30 Nov 2022

Communal rift highest in India, says Pew study

3 min read . 29 Nov 2022

The NFHS data shows that the median Indian woman has sex for the first time at age 18.9 years and the median Indian man at age 24.8 years.

The startling thing about Indian men’s sex lives

3 min read . 01 Jul 2022

A health worker takes a swab sample from a man for a RT-PCR Covid-19 coronavirus test at a residential area in Chennai (Photo: AFP)

Poor faced more covid deaths in India, study shows

3 min read . 23 Dec 2021

Official classifications in jobs data can make low-paying jobs seem like secure employment. A file photo of migrant workers leaving cities for their homes in villages during the covid-19 lockdown in 2020. (HT_PRINT)

This is the real problem with India's employment data

5 min read . 15 Dec 2021

A file photo of prisoners sitting in a cell of Tihar jail in New Delhi (Photo: AFP)

The scourge of mental illness among prisoners on death row

3 min read . 21 Oct 2021

Less than a quarter children from low-income urban families, and just 8% among rural ones, were studying online regularly as of August, show findings published Monday by a team of researchers led by economists Nirali Bakhla, Jean Dreze, Vipul Paikra and Reetika Khera. (ANI)

How school closures have hurt our less fortunate students more

3 min read . 07 Sept 2021

Majorities of people across castes and most religious groups also consider stopping inter-caste marriage a high priority

What Indians think about religion and religious differences, in five charts

4 min read . 30 Jun 2021

India began its vaccination programme with healthcare and frontline workers on 16 January, and subsequently expanded it to people over the age of 60 from 1 March and finally to people between the ages of 18 and 44 from 1 May.

India’s women are getting left behind in its vaccination drive

3 min read . 02 Jun 2021

Municipal workers in Srinagar in early March, 2020. By 3 March, 2020, the fact that this was going to be a fast-spreading virus became clear. (Photo: Reuters)

How citizen data led India’s covid battle

8 min read . 03 Mar 2021

Men work longer hours than women in both rural and urban areas, and for both men and women, the hours of work are longer in urban areas.

Indian workers work longest, earn the least

3 min read . 22 Feb 2021

File Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Survey data again casts doubt over reality of open defecation-free India

3 min read . 13 Jan 2021

Photo: Getty Images

Economic growth helps child nutrition but isn’t enough, health survey shows

3 min read . 22 Dec 2020

The Post-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Castes caters to over six million students as of 2018-19.

Why Dalit students are facing a fund crunch in India’s educational institutions

3 min read . 14 Dec 2020

India’s post-covid ‘recovery’ in employment has not been equal for men and women

3 min read . 17 Nov 2020

US poll count may have been slow, but it holds a lesson for India

3 min read . 09 Nov 2020

Upper castes spend the most time on religious practice, have the most time to watch television and use other media, and have the most leisure time. (Priyanka Parasher/Mint)

Your caste and class determines how you spend time

3 min read . 15 Oct 2020

Those who travelled in a shared mode of transport within three rows of the index case were classified as high-risk contacts. (Photo: Satish Bate/Hindustan Times)

Covid-19 spread in some unique ways in India, new contact tracing data shows

5 min read . 01 Oct 2020

File photo: A deserted view of the road during the weekend lockdown (ANI)

Why India has emerged as pandemic epicentre, despite early lockdown

6 min read . 19 Sept 2020

India’s covid-19 count could be missing many women

4 min read . 29 Aug 2020