Delhi, Maharashtra and Rajasthan are taking steps to rewrite the unconstitutional law on beggary and...

"We saw how people struggled for meals and to get to their homes. The deeper...

As part of an exercise to decriminalise/rationalise penalties under the provisions of the Railway Act,...

Koshish was initiated in August 2006 as a response to this systemic injustice and criminalization...

The country has been going through an unprecedented health crisis. There is despair and desperation...

Setting up an independent social audit mechanism will be the first.

Help rendered during pandemic should be about empathy, not charity

It doesn’t cost a lot to rehabilitate the homeless, says the director-animator Kireet Khurana who...

The Summers and the rains and the winters; all are severe. Days are harsh. Nights...

Compassion is probably the most beautiful emotion humans can ever experience. In compassion lies the...

सर ये बिमारी आई है इसलिए सब बंद है, पर हमको कई बिमारियाँ है उसका...

The TISS audit report commissioned by Delhi Commission for Women has detailed multiple physical and...

As per the report, 85 percent of the shelter homes has recreation rooms for various...

Only 47 per cent of shelter homes in Delhi are running with a valid license,...

The Delhi government and the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) had partnered with the Tata...

The Supreme Court directed the Bihar government to take steps to unite eight girls in...

Police in India's commercial capital face accusations of using an old law against begging as...

The allegation of sexual assaults first came to light in May last year when TISS...

A team from Tata Institute of Social Sciences will understand and chalk out a conducive...

Residents of the footpath under Amar Mahal junction in Chembur forcibly evicted

She has no memory of her early childhood, no recollection of her biological parents and...

India’s economic power is growing at unprecedented rates. However, despite being one of the world’s...

According to the Centre, 32 per cent of the childcare institutions were registered under the...

Recognising destitute persons have equal rights to dignity, the Court revives the possibility of enacting...

Koshish was started in 2006 as a student initiative at the Mumbai campus of TISS...

Among the 25 provisions struck down are those permitting the arrest, without a warrant, any...

The girls who end up at shelter homes are, very often, nobody’s children; society’s most...

Activists working for the welfare of people who take to begging hailed the Delhi high...

In a telephonic interview, Mohd Tarique who led the ‘Koshish’ team from TISS, told The...

The country has been waking up every morning to disturbing accounts of young girls being...

When a seven-member team of young psychologists of the ‘Koshish Project’ of the Tata Institute...

A few months ago, on the initiative of the Bihar government, the Tata Institute of...

The report also stated that the conditions at some of the shelter homes were coercive...

I humbly submit that no female or male child in this country is safe from...

Cut off from their families and without any source of income, it took over two...

The young man arguing for rehabilitating the destitute instead of penalising them is halfway through...

The 167 men, women and kids were convicted by a court and sent from Nashik...

Where do the homeless go? Do they share the same rights as you and me?...

The Centre's stand came on two PILs seeking basic human and fundamental rights for beggars...

Begging will not be decriminalised, the Centre on Thursday said changing its stance in the...

It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief, goes a Japanese proverb....

We as a developed society are so insensitive to mental illness that , just a...

A study conducted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on the implications of Supreme...

Life comes full circle, on some counts at least! My son was nine years old...

Homelessness is a major social and public health concern worldwide. Attributed to various individual and...

The Centre is considering a scheme to provide shelter, health care and skill development training...

Begging is outlawed in Mumbai, which means the anti-begging Act needs to be scrapped before...

Project Koshish, a field action project of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, started way...

Cancer patients, confused senior citizens, hawkers these are just some of the people forcibly bundled...

When a young Quereshi moved from Dehradun to Delhi, he was deeply moved by the...

Twenty nine-year-old, Tarique Mohammad Qureshi, wears his heart on his sleeves as he leads a...

Tarique Mohammed Quereshi, a graduate of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai heads...

The MESH (Maximising Employment to Serve the Handicapped) programme which helps lepers and the disabled...

Koshish’s tryst is to ensure minimum rights for beggars and push for changes in the...

"They forced us to sit naked in a row and splashed a mug of water...