With False Entitlement, Wrong Priorities, Gandhis Symbolise The Death Of...
Politics and leadership are about action rather than holding a position. The new wave of politics which has emerged in the last six years desires three things: a perpetual necessity of the populist...
View ArticleA Community Forgotten And Marginalised: The Siddis Of Gujarat
Human migration can be described as the movement of people from one region to another for various reasons such as lack of employment, diseases, war, etc. People can either choose to move voluntarily or...
View ArticleFuture Of Skills: Five Things We Must Focus On
Did you know that India’s average workforce is just 28 years old? In contrast to comparable economies like China and the USA (where the average age is 37), India has the youngest and fastest-growing...
View ArticleThese 6 People Talk About Making The Shift From Plastic And It’s Inspirational!
By Shraddha Uchil What started as a small movement by the Plastic Free Foundation in Australia in 2011 has now turned into an influential global environmental campaign. Less than a decade later,...
View ArticleThe Culture Crisis In India’s Migration Story: “Ladki Nahi Bigdegi, Aage...
Bhaiya aapki biwi bacche kaha rehte hai, wo yaha nahi hai?“ (Brother, where does your family live? Are they not here?) Having not seen many humans for months, I was feeling a bit more talkative. I...
View ArticleThe #MeToo Movement Exists Because A Survivor Of Gang-Rape Can Be Jailed In...
Illustration credit: Robin Chakraborty Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence, injustice. “File an FIR if you are telling the truth. Why post on Social Media? Let the law take its course!” – Samaaj (Society)...
View ArticleUniversity Grants Commission Launches A Completely Inaccessible COVID19...
Much to our surprise, the University Grants Commission (UGC), which is the governing body of higher education has a completely inaccessible website. Further, the COVID-19 helpdesk that is set up for...
View ArticleCivil Organisations At The Grassroots Must Be Supported In Their COVID-19...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns began in March 2020, millions of lives have been thrown out of gear. At this time, larger civil society organisations (CSOs) have been making...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Might Not Be Gendered, But The Lockdown Sure Is. Here’s How
According to International Monetary Fund, women’s participation in the workforce could increase India’s GDP manifold. A McKinsey Global Institute study calculated that the economic impact of achieving...
View ArticleMaking Virtual Volunteering Work
By Aarti Madhusudhan, Shalabh Sahai As many disasters do, COVID-19 saw a large number of citizens taking to the streets, giving time and assistance to those who need it. Simultaneously, it also saw an...
View ArticleA Student Asks, When Did My Marks Start Defining Me?
I remember that I was a mere thirteen-year-old then, unaware of this ginormous term, ‘stress’. It was way back in 2017, the year my cousin sat for the boards. I was still in the seventh grade, not...
View ArticleHow I Shifted To Mumbai To Earn A Living After My Father Got Paralysed
Twenty-one-year-old Amit Mane came to Mumbai with a small bag of clothes, a certificate confirming that he had cleared Class 12 from a junior college in Sangli, a small district in Maharashtra, and a...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Is The Kejriwal Government Doing Enough For The Aam Aadmi’s...
For the last few days, the Delhi Government has been at the forefront of containing and checking the spread of the novel coronavirus. Of late, Delhi has been gasping with a sharp rise in caseloads and...
View ArticleI’ve Been Slut Shamed Since I Was 15: Was My Body Never My Own?
I read it somewhere when I was in 12th standard, ‘Slut-Shaming attacks a women’s right to say yes; friendzone attacks a women’s right to say no and ‘bitch’ attacks hers right to call you out on it”. I...
View ArticleWhen Capitalism Meets Patriarchy: How Privatisation In Educations Hurts Women...
Globalized modernity is brazenly paradoxical. One face of it is that of surging GDP rates and sky-scraping buildings. Another face, not apparent but dreadful, is that of starving bellies and...
View ArticleKHAAMOSH!: Why Does Bollywood Refuse To Speak Up?
It looks like Bollywood took Shatrugan Sinha too seriously when he shouted “KHAAMOSH” back in the day. I have a bone to pick with Bollywood. And that is that, even though the Indian Film Industry...
View ArticleWhat It Means To Be A Frontline Worker In The Remotest Parts Of The Earth
Stay Home. Stay Safe. The message has been clear since India’s nationwide lockdown, which began on March 24, sent millions of people home from work and school to stop the spread of COVID-19. But many...
View ArticleHere Is How A Sustainable Living Can Help Improve Your Mental Health
Our natural environment can have a positive or negative impact on a person’s mental well-being. Along with other factors such as economical and job insecurity, weather patterns and climate change also...
View ArticleWhy Does Our Legal System Demand A ‘Proper Victim’ And Jails A Rape Survivor?
TW: Sexual assault, child abuse. A 22-year-old gang-rape survivor was arrested and sent to jail by a civil court in the Araria district of Bihar which charged her and two social workers for “causing...
View Article‘Gateway Error 404’: DU’s Mock Exams Were A Failed Experiment
While this terminology ‘gateway timeout’ indicates that the server, while acting as a gateway, did not get a response in time (terminology being frequently seen while attempting to deal with Delhi...
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