What Is Cross Media Ownership And How Is It Responsible For Corruption In...
Note: I had written this article almost a year ago for Young Bhartiya (Mumbai-based think tank). Observing the current media trends, this article remains relevant even today and gives an understanding...
View ArticleAs A Disabled Person, Embracing ‘Crip Time’ Helped Me Define My Own “Normal”
The part of my identity I found hardest to accept, much less celebrate, was my need to follow a non-normative timeframe as a disabled person. Un-learning everything society had taught me about...
View Article“You Cannot Bypass The Power Of Communities”
By Ayesha Marfatia, Sneha Philip Erum Mariam is the Executive Director of BRAC IED (The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee Institute of Educational Development), BRAC University, in Bangladesh. She...
View ArticleWill COVID-19 Push Us To Recognize Mental Health Care As A Right For All?
By Gayatri Kotbagi and Aatish Shinde In 1919, Science magazine published a paper on lessons from the Spanish Flu pandemic. The paper argued that three main factors stood in the way of prevention: (i)...
View Article“It Is Becoming A Struggle To Stay Alive”: Covid-19 Has Made It Worse For...
I remember that during school days, we had Thalassemia NGOs come to our school, talk about their initiative and later we would get forms asking to collect donations. From every class, students who...
View Article‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’: 3,000 Episodes Of Patriarchy, Casteism And...
A month ago, while I was having dinner with my family, as usual, my uncle switched to the famous Hindi TV serial, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (TMKOC). As usual, a frustrated me asked, “What kind of...
View Article“I Lost My Job Due To COVID And It’s Been Very Difficult To Provide For My...
One fine morning, the country woke up to the news of a highly contagious virus, the Corona. We thought this was just another virus but eventually, it proved to be something with way more dire...
View ArticlePoem: “My Birth Is A Burden; Foremost, It’s My Shoulders That Carry This Womb”
What sort of existence awaits me? As I sit in the womb, I wonder. Will I be allowed into this world? They were hoping for a boy. Or will I be lucky enough to move forward; with certain restrictions and...
View ArticleWhat Depression Was To Me And How I Fought It
First, I would like to tell why I am writing ways out of depression and why I am a suitable person to write about this. Why I write this? It is not a hidden fact what happened to the young Bollywood...
View Article5 Reasons Why David Attenborough’s ‘A Life On Our Planet’ Might Be Our Last Hope
If you’re wondering what to do over the weekend, here’s a suggestion: put on some Netflix, play David Attenborough’s new documentary, become enchanted by the wonder that is planet Earth, and then weep...
View ArticleZomato’s Period Policy Will ‘Give Agency To Women In A Man’s World’
It’s been more than a month since Zomato announced its period policy which stormed the Internet. With the good, bad, and ugly remarks, the people of the Internet reacted to this inception in Zomato’s...
View Article#MinorityLivesMatters: Is New India A Better Place For Dalits, Muslims and Women
According to the official report of National Crime Records Bureau, from 2016 to till now, minorities are over-represented in Indian prisons which includes Dalits and Muslims in common. On an annual...
View Articleझारखंड के इन गाँवों में ज़हरीले पानी के कारण हो रही मौतों के लिए ज़िम्मेदार कौन?
“दो साल से खाट पर पड़ा हूं। हाथ-पैर काम नहीं करते। दर्द ऐसा है कि सहा तक नहीं जाता। क्या करूं बाबू? परिवार के लिए बोझ ही तो बन गया हूं? बस अब पड़े-पड़े मौत का इंतज़ार कर रहा हूं।” बांस और टाट से निर्मित...
View ArticleMenstrual Music: Seven Musicians Who Sang The Glory Of Menses
From Bob Dylan’s timeless song ‘Times Are A Changin’ to Iqbal Bano draped in black saree performing ‘ Hum Dekhenge’, music justifies its true invisible potential to bring ripples of change. Musicians...
View ArticleIf It Is Women Who Are Discriminated Against, How Are Men Able To Play The...
Trigger warning: Mention of rape If I go by the trend, given the headlines these days, trolling, bashing and humiliation should become the norm. But it’s high time that the issue of men posing as...
View ArticleA Letter To My Borderline Personality Disorder
Dear Borderline Personality disorder, So, where shall I begin? I’m unsure of the date you attached yourself to my being and started consuming my mind. Before I knew about your existence within myself,...
View ArticleDo We Care About The Lives Lost In Septic Tanks And Sewer Lines?
The Union Government is set to introduce an Amendment Bill this Monsoon Session in the Parliament aiming to take stringent measures to eliminate manual scavenging in India. The Prohibition of...
View ArticleTanishq Takes Down Ad Promoting Interfaith Love, As #BoycottTanishq Trends...
Acchaai Kab Itni Buri Ban Gayi, Bhai? So, what’s new on the block? Who are we after today? Who do we shame today? What do we boycott today? Tanishq fell under the recent “moral-policing” radar,...
View ArticleMagic Is Might: The Government’s Tricks With India’s GDP Growth Rate
A startling discovery about the Indian GDP growth rate between 2011-12 and 2016-17 states that India did not grow at 7% per year, as the citizens were officially informed. Instead, the average annual...
View ArticleOpinion: The Tanishq Ad Celebrating Interfaith Love And Harmony Is NOT Offensive
The latest Tanishq wedding jewellery advertisement showing interfaith harmony has come under fire, with social media ablaze with #BoycottTanishq tweets and posts. The ad has received flak for allegedly...
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