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[Y]Ral: Rajdeep Sardesai Speaks His Mind On The Aamir Khan Controversy
By YKA Staff: On 23rd November, 2015, Aamir Khan spoke out about what he felt were the rising instances of 'intolerance' in India, as reported in the news, and expressed his and his wife's concerns....
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Nikita Azad On How Her Letter On Youth Ki Awaaz Started The National Campaign...
By Nikita Azad and Subhashini Shriya: [caption id="attachment_58702" align="alignright" width="373"] Image source: Twitter[/caption] On November 20, I (Nikita Azad) wrote an open letter addressed to...
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7 Ways In Which Being ‘Manly’ Oppresses Men As Much As It Oppresses Women
By YKA Staff: India is a country steeped in centuries of patriarchy. A country where traditions and rituals, as well as our upbringing ensures that there is a clear power-dynamic in the way men and...
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There’s A ₹2.5 Solution For The 68% Women In Rural India Who Can’t Afford...
By Darshan Desai: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Shyam Sunder Bedekar is a successful textile dye and chemical trader in Vadodara, Gujarat. He is also the man credited...
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YKA Exclusive: What Does The President Of The Cow Protection Army Do? We Met...
By Abhimanyu Singh: [caption id="attachment_58935" align="alignleft" width="480"] Image source: Facebook[/caption] Ashoo Mongia is a busy man. Rashtriya Adhyaksh or the President of the Rashtriye...
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Keeping Up With The Khans
Aamir Khan's comments at the Ramnath Goenka Journalism Awards last week sparked much debate and discussion. Wonder what the other Khans think.. The post Keeping Up With The Khans appeared first and...
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A New Breed Of Entrepreneurs Are Cropping Up In Cities, Right On Your Roof!
By Sugandh Priya Ojha: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. The roof of a bungalow in Delhi’s upmarket Greater Kailash locality is teeming with gardening enthusiasts. They...
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What Does India’s First Trans College Principal Think About LGBT+ Rights? A...
By Ankita Mukhopadhyay for Youth Ki Awaaz: Manabi Bandhopadhyay created history in India by becoming the first transgender principal of a college in West Bengal in 2015. Her list of achievements...
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It’s Messed Up How Rambo, G.I.Joe And Others Have Shaped Our Idea Of A ‘Real...
By Shambhavi Saxena: [envoke_twitter_link]Can pop culture cause violent behaviour in men?[/envoke_twitter_link] In a Time magazine article, James Poniewozik argued that it cannot program or direct...
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Developed Nations Might Have Hatched A Plot To Blame All Climate Failures On...
By Chandra Bhushan: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. The atmosphere at the climate conference in Paris is full of rumour and intrigue. Rumours abound of a pincer movement,...
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Ground Report: How India’s ‘Unofficial’ Blockade Of Nepal Is Leading To Its...
By Deepak Adhikari: For Kishor Adhikari (no relation with the author), a fifty-year-old casino worker, a task as ordinary as fetching medicines for his ailing parents has turned out to be a laborious...
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‘Not Even 10 When I Was First Sexually Abused': Barkha Dutt Breaks Her...
By Barkha Dutt: [envoke_twitter_link]I was not even ten when I was first sexually abused[/envoke_twitter_link]. The perpetrator was a distant older relative who had come to stay with us for a short...
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RTI Reveals Medical Negligence And Faulty Appointments At NIT Durgapur
Submitted Anonymously: Prosenjit Sarkar, a final year B.Tech student in the department of Electrical Engineering at NIT Durgapur, complained of an acute headache on 17th November 2015 and went to the...
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Don’t Blame Nature, Chennai Floods Are A Man-Made Disaster
By Sushmita Sengupta: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. [envoke_twitter_link]Chennai is a victim of man-made disaster[/envoke_twitter_link]. Its soil and rock types suggest...
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Water Water Everywhere But Media’s Got No Story To Share
In recent days, the so-called national media has been getting flak for its apathy towards coverage of the floods in Chennai. The post Water Water Everywhere But Media’s Got No Story To Share appeared...
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Why Does Beijing Value Its Citizens More Than Delhi?
By Shirin Bithal: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. The authorities in Beijing declared a "smog alert" in the city on November 29, when China’s capital recorded a reading of...
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Why All Tribes In Manipur Have United Against The State Government (Part 1)
By Sabina Yasmin Rahman: On 31st August this year, the Manipur State Legislative Assembly passed 3 'Money Bills' that led to violent protests in the state, and the death of three protesters....
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Why Tribals In Manipur Are Refusing To Bury Their Dead In Protest Against The...
By Sabina Yasmin Rahman: Note: This is part 2 of a two-part series. Read the first part here. On 31st August this year, the Manipur State Legislative Assembly passed 3 ‘Money Bills’ that led to...
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If Breaking Stereotypes Is A Mission, These 8 People Are Nailing It And How!
By YKA Staff: Editor's note: YKA's annual event CONVERGE is all set to take place on December 12, 2015. 'For those who give a damn', it brings together a cross-section of speakers to deliver some of...
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A Student Who Never Left Campus And A Revolutionary Poet: A Tribute To JNU’s...
By Abhimanyu Singh: The revolutionary poet Vidrohi is no more. I first met him many years ago, in 2002 or 2003, soon after I became a JNU student. My centre, the School of Languages, Literature and...
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