While the rest of the world is dealing with petroleum prices and energy reserves, the Chhatarpur and Panna districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, are facing their own crisis. The tribal women villagers of the Chhatarpur region of Madhya Pradesh lay on funeral pyres to protest the Ken-Betwa Link Project in April 2026.

The motherhood penalty is the loss a woman faces in the workplace after becoming a mother. In simpler words, the motherhood penalty is an utterly frustrating phenomenon for women facing economic disadvantages after becoming a mother.

The 2020s have shown a stark rise in discontentment among the youth of South Asia; giving rise to a string of revolutions across the continent, which have overthrown the existing regimes and replaced them with student backed interim governments.