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If you are on social media and do not live under a rock, you may have seen artificial intelligence-generated videos of famous theoretical physicist and wheelchair user Stephen Hawking being horribly brutalized in myriad violent acts. As you casually scroll past these distasteful videos of Hawking, including ones of him being tossed around in a WWE ring, you may pause briefly on a reel wherein United States President Donald Trump claims to have found a cause for autism. Furthe

Recognising care as a constitutional right requires recognising caregivers as rights-holders, not merely as family members performing expected duties. The Covid-19 pandemic, now well behind us, briefly brought to public attention the indispensable yet invisible work of care. For a moment, the world acknowledged the labour that sustains households, communities, and capital. But as the crisis receded, so did the conversation. The pandemic’s visibility for care was fleeting; th

Public discourse around the recently announced census 2027 has been preoccupied with two politically charged questions—the inclusion of caste data and the use of census figures for delimitation. An important point, disability and data, has been completely missed in debates. Historically, persons with disabilities have been among the most undercounted population in India’s census. They were statistically invisible between 1941 and 1971. It wasn’t until 1981 that disability wa