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Is This Going To Be The Year For Trans Equality In India?
By Shambhavi Saxena: There are those among us who still think trans and non-binary people have been sent by the Devil (or some variation thereupon) to test our virtue. There are those among us who...
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The Great Indian Temple Irony
As women’s protests against religious misogyny rise, here’s looking at the irony of barring women from places of worship. The post The Great Indian Temple Irony appeared first and originally on Youth...
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How Even Science Can’t Escape The Gender Stereotypes That Society Has Created
By Rakesh Kalshian: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Image Source: Flickr Ever since homo became sapient, the human mind (predominantly men, actually) has conjured up various...
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India’s Most Powerful Voices On Why The SC Must Reconsider Its Decision On...
By YKA Staff: On December 11, 2013 the Supreme Court of India dealt a heavy blow to equal rights in India, by reversing a 2009 Delhi High Court judgement that had read down Section 377 of the IPC....
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Voices Against 377 Grow Louder On Youth Ki Awaaz As SC Agrees To Re-Open...
By YKA Staff: On December 11, 2013 the Supreme Court of India dealt a heavy blow to equal rights in India, by reversing a 2009 Delhi High Court judgement that had read down Section 377 of the IPC....
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Report Reveals Northeast’s Incredible Growth Rate, But Also How It’s Failing...
By Prachi Salve & Sanjana Pandit, IndiaSpend.com: Image Source: Flickr * India’s fastest-growing state is Meghalaya, with a growth rate of 9.7% in 2013-14, higher than the fastest-growing big...
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Why Making It Mandatory To Determine The Sex Of A Child Before Birth Is A...
By Kundan Pandey: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Union Woman and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi’s suggestion to make sex determination mandatory has been opposed...
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Meet Rudrani Chettri, The Founder Of India’s 1st Transgender Modelling Agency
By Shambhavi Saxena: It’s an understatement to say that trans or gender non-conforming people have it hard in India. The common person’s misunderstandings about their nature and an unhealthy interest...
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New Viral Fever: Mob Mentality
The recent attack on a Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru raises the question: When a mob turns violent, what could its members possibly be thinking? The post New Viral Fever: Mob Mentality appeared first...
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Kota: Hub For Engineering Coaching, But Also Where Hundreds Of Students...
By Abhishek Jha: Source: REUTERS/Ahmad Masood Anyone who has studied in a coaching institute in Kota will tell you, the classroom is more of a factory. A hundred or more – unless you are the creamiest...
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What You Need To Know About The Zika Virus To Protect Yourself From It
By Kundan Pandey: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Image source: Free stock photos The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday issued guidelines on the Zika...
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These Inspirational Real Life Heroes Are Fighting A Deadly Enemy That India...
By Lipi Mehta: When writer Dorothy Parker set out to write ‘The Great American Novel’, she actually found herself in a TB sanatorium in the Swiss mountains. Looking at the condition of the patients...
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In The List Of India’s Cleanest Cities, Guess Where PM Modi’s Constituency...
By Sushmita Sengupta: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Image source: Christopher Fynn/Flickr Mysuru, Chandigarh and Tiruchirapalli have emerged as the three cleanest cities...
View ArticleYKA Exclusive: What Television Media Won’t Tell You About JNU
By YKA Staff: The country has slid into questionable times. Times when words like ‘nationalism’ and ‘anti-nationalism’ are being given scary definitions. Definitions that create divides rather than...
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When PM Modi Called NREGA A ‘Monument Of Failure’, Why Did The BJP Govt. Not...
By Richard Mahapatra: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. India’s current political season has a nostalgic tint. Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has apparently met party...
View ArticleTake A Bow! Journalist Ravish Kumar Delivers The Most Iconic Speech In...
By YKA Staff: “This black screen is the face of the media today.” At prime time on February 19, amidst the cacophony of what the nation wants to know and what journalists want to say (or rather,...
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Modi’s ‘Nationalist’ Advice For Obama
In India, the government has slapped protesting JNU students with sedition. And in America, Tim Cook battles privacy concerns. Here’s looking at the possible advice Modi has for Obama. The post Modi’s...
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This Is How The Chhattisgarh Govt. Is ‘Punishing’ Tribals For Protesting...
By Shruti Agarwal: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. For the first time in 10 years of the Forest Rights Act (FRA), the Chhattisgarh government has cancelled forest rights...
View Article2.5 Lakh Die Of This Disease Every Year. Watch How Much (Or Little) We Know...
By YKA Staff: It kills almost 2.5 lakh (250,000) people in India a year, causes a tremendous amount of stigma and isolation for those suffering from it, yet, we know very little about it. Tuberculosis...
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Ground Report: A Blow By Blow Account Of Everything That Happened At JNU Last...
By Abhimanyu Singh for Youth Ki Awaaz: A lot has happened in the last few days. The five students who went ‘underground’ resurfaced in the evening in JNU after almost a week on Feb 21. Two of them...
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