India Development Review

Since 2015, Bindi International Association has been training women from rural areas to become solar technicians and entrepreneurs. We work in partnership with the government and local nonprofits to identify indigenous, last-mile communities for electrification using solar energy an...

There is more Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) capital in India today than ever before. Since the CSR mandate came into effect in 2014, more than INR 2.2 lakh crore has flowed into the country’s development sector, with nearly two-thirds of that entering in just the last five years. The number of participating companies has also grown from 4,600 to more than 21,000.

In the valley of Tripura’s Unakoti district, tea estates are spread across uneven land and connected by narrow roads. The fields are vast, green, and carefully maintained, but just beyond them lie the labour lines: a row of houses, small, unpaved pathways, and shared spaces where tea workers live and raise their families.

Early in the mo...

In April 2025, a petitioner approached the Supreme Court of India because she could not independently access basic banking services since every digital option available to her was inaccessible to her as a person with disability. The court’s response was unambiguous: Digital accessibility for persons with disabilities is a constitutional right, not a design preference. This wa...

“Jhum was great for our forefathers, the pressure on the land was less. Now, the quantity of rice produced has reduced, and we are facing issues with cultivating vegetables as well. We also want to cultivate closer to the village, which is why we come back to the same plot within seven to nine years,” says Aling,* a farmer from Aben village in Manipur’s Tamenglong district, w...