Whether it is putting off an urgent surgery or making do with 250 gm of fish for her family of four once a month, Lakhya Saikia, like most other poorly-paid ASHA workers, has to balance her domestic budget with extreme care

Few women in impoverished packets of rural Maharashtra are aware of government welfare schemes or do not have the documents to access them

Anganwadi workers says their role has gone from deliverers of schemes to being data collectors for the government

Currently, India’s legal structure shows little respect for care work of any kind