“Meena Is A 35-Year-Old Grandmother And Her Oldest Son Is 20”
In our society, adolescence is seen as a problem! It is the stage when a person enters puberty and starts exploring her sexuality. Ideally, it should be a matter of celebration; when a person enters...
View Articleकैसे सरकारी नीतियां उत्तराखंड के किसानों की मुश्किलें बढ़ा रहा है
कोरोना महामारी ने जिस तरह से पूरी दुनिया को प्रभावित किया है, उसकी गूंज सदियों तक इतिहास में सुनाई देती रहेगी। इस महामारी ने मानव जीवन के सभी क्षेत्रों को प्रभावित किया है। विशेषकर दुनियाभर की...
View ArticleCan We Define Issues Our Society Needs To Be Tolerant And Intolerant Of?
In keeping with the turbulent times our country is facing, the words of Nelson Mandela really struck me. “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its...
View ArticleCan Island Nations Save Themselves From Disappearing Due To The Rising Sea...
Climate change has been an internationally recognised challenge since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, one of the effects of climate change that evades the eye is the...
View ArticleWhen The PM Announced A 21-day Lockdown, I’d Been In Self-Isolation For 2 Years
Self-Isolation is just no fun. Everyone I love right now is going through probably the worst thing they’ve ever gone through. Life has become an endless cycle of work from home Zoom conferences,...
View ArticleBan On Sex Work And Capital Punishment Of Accused Are Not Reforms That’ll...
Trigger Warning: Mention of sexual violence Rapes and acid attacks have been a part of our society for a long time. These evils are talked about vastly on social media. Many NGOs work alongside rape...
View Article“Tere Sath Nai Hua Na, Shaant Reh“, And Other Things I Hear When I Talk About...
Trigger Warning: Rape, sexual assault. Every time a rape case shocks India, the #NotAllMen debate floods the internet. The more I talk to men regarding this, the more I realise they have absolutely no...
View ArticleAuthor Perumal Murugan And Translator N Kalyan Raman On The Act Of Literary...
The 2020 JCB Prize for Literature longlisted author Megha Majumdar wrote in her fantastic debut novel, A Burning, “What words can do? Not very much.” But it’s that very powerful sentence that makes it...
View Article4 Stories Of Homophobia That Show We’re Still A Long Way From Being Inclusive
Trigger Warning: This article addresses homophobia; mention of abuse. To mark the International Day of Non-Violence, Love Matters India brings you stories of intolerance LGBT+ persons have faced in...
View Article“Caste Enables Rape, And Then Defends The Rapists Too”
Trigger Warning: Rape, Caste-based Violence It is unfair to call ourselves progressive if some of us UPPER CASTE people disagree with mentioning the victim’s caste in rape crimes or working for a...
View ArticleCheckmate Humanity, Really?: There’s More To ‘The Social Dilemma’ Than We Think
A few days ago, I made an online friend. I met him on one of these websites that aim at “facilitating” friendships (as if they are engineered and not organic). It matched us based on our interests: he...
View ArticleHUL’s ‘Glow’ And Lovely Is Just ‘Old Wine In A New Bottle’
The year 2020 has been a cauldron of chaos. From the decimating virus that has crippled the economy worldwide to the exposure of inequalities both economic and racial, this year will be considered...
View ArticleA Lot Is Happening In India, And We Have A Silent Prime Minister. ‘Acche Din’...
TW: Rape, Sexual Violence I am writing this as a concerned citizen. A concerned Indian. It is important for me to put this out there because we live in an age when concerns are disregarded as...
View ArticleNeed To Re-energise MSMEs And PPP Models For A Promising Atmanirbhar Bharat
The global supply chain is not different from the food chain context that we hear in our environment textbooks and discussions every now and then. The lower organism ultimately gets consumed by the...
View ArticleLessons That The 7-Year-Run TV Serial Mahabharata Has Taught Us
The mother of all wars, the mother of all rivalries, the cauldron of emotions, insecurities, jealousies and powerplay — The Mahabharata! Riveting and a master lesson for the entire mankind,” as...
View ArticleOnly 6/100 Corporate Chairpersons In India Are Women. Here’s Why That Must...
Written by: Karan Arora A large body of evidence in the past has found a positive business case for having more women in company boardrooms. Consulting firms, information providers and financial...
View ArticleLockdown Life Lessons: 10 Things The Experience Taught Me
When the lockdown was announced on March 24, I had already stocked up vegetables and essentials for the week. I had been working remotely since January, so staying indoors wouldn’t be much of a problem...
View ArticleIf Manual Scavenging Is Just An ‘Occupation’, Why Does It Exclusively Employ...
How do we define a social issue or how does any issue get associated with a social tag? There are many parameters which seek to explicate and contextualize the social frame of reference. For example:...
View ArticleDon’t Let Your Dislike For Modi Cloud Your Judgement On Farm Reforms
Chakravarthy Nallamothu is a firm believer that Modi squandered away a once in a generation opportunity to put India on a path to economic prosperity. His demonetization fiasco, the disaster that GST...
View ArticleMayhem In The Mangroves: The Sundarbans Crisis Deepens During The Pandemic
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused a huge public health crisis across the globe. While the imminent health concerns naturally took priority, the impact of certain other dire consequences of climate...
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