She wants elder care treated as public infrastructure, not private misfortune. Ageing women are simply not a category the systems in India are built to recognise. This is what a state that never designed elder care around women actually produces. Parliamentary records reveal why it persists — the Parliamentary Questions database has virtually no questions on ageing women, there are no private member Bills, or committee attention. Barkha Deva works on policy for dignified ageing and elder care

Source: The Hindu March 06, 2026 05:18 UTC