Saluting Volunteerism, A Spirit That Defeated The Pandemic
On International Volunteers Day, we celebrate the undaunted spirit of volunteers who have gone far and beyond during these tough times to stand by marginalised children Puja Marwaha (CEO, CRY – Child...
View ArticlePluralism Does Not Justify The Violation Of Human Rights. India, Are You...
On October 2019, delivering a lecture on the “Indian Economy: Challenges and Prospects” at the Deepak and Neera Raj Centre on Indian Economic Policies, Columbia University’s School of International and...
View ArticleHow Analysing Your Menstrual Cycle Can Help Diagnose Reproductive Diseases
Menstruation in itself is a topic that tends to intimidate women due to the excessive stigmatisation around it. Lack of proper information about it is something that is being dealt with on a societal...
View Article93% Of Women And Girls With Disabilities Are Denied Reproductive Rights. Have...
As we try to step out of tabooed spaces around menstruation and replace them with safer ones to discuss menstrual hygiene management, they are still scarce for women with intellectual disabilities....
View Article“Why Divide An Already Divided Society?” Analysing The ‘Love jihad’ Law
In India, people are in the habit of interfering in the personal affairs of others. Marriage is a social custom but also a personal affair of an individual. But, in India, marriage becomes a way to...
View ArticleHave We Always Been Apathetic To Human Rights In India?
TW: Mentions of rape, caste-based atrocities, murder, Delhi Pogrom 10th December 2020 has long been observed as Human Rights Day by the United Nations, as The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was...
View ArticleExplained: Why India Needs Paternity Leaves
Written By: Avanti Deshpande Virat Kohli, ace cricketer, the Indian men’s cricket team captain and the most followed Indian on Instagram is in the news for a rather surprising reason – he’s decided to...
View ArticleHow This Project Is Celebrating People with Disabilities
I had the wonderful opportunity of being approached by Faisal Ashraf Nomani, who’s been kind and appreciative of my work in the blogging space. Faisal told me about Oddity: Don’t Bend, Don’t Blend, the...
View ArticleOpinion: Not Just Their Rights, Farmers Are Waging An Anti-Imperialist Struggle
The working class of the country has united to repeal a series of ordinances that are an organised assault on their land, their aamdani (income), and dignity. Unprecedented unity among the people has...
View ArticleMX Players’ New Web Series, Pati Patni Aur Panga, Is Transphobic. Period.
Mx Player has come up with a new web-series titled ‘ Pati Patni aur Panga‘ (PPP), directed by Abir Sengupta, and starring Adah Sharma as a transgender woman, Shivani. The trailer is out and this is...
View Articleकविता: “जाने यह नींद क्यों सताती है?”
कभी जल्दी तो कभी बहुत देर से आती है जब न आए तो बड़ा तड़पाती है जाने यह नींद क्यों सताती है? किसी को चैन की आती है तो किसी को बेचैन कर जाती है जाने यह नींद क्यों सताती है? महंगे गद्दे और चटाई मे फर्क नही...
View Article“क्या साज़िश के तहत किसान आंदोलन को कहा जा रहा है राजनीतिक?”
विरोध करना लोकतांत्रिक व्यवस्था का आधार है, जिसे पिछले कुछ सालों में लगभग अपराध की श्रेणी में गिना जाने लगा है। पिछले कुछ दिनों से चल रहे किसान आंदोलन या यूं कहें कि लगभग तीन महीने से चल रहे आंदोलन,...
View Article“At A Time When Everyone Was Finding It Hard To Make Ends Meet, We Were Being...
Hirawan Kumar went to Pushpathur in Tamilnadu from his village Dhanauji in Bihar at the age of eight. “There were financial problems at home so I had to go” he said. As he got older, and better at his...
View Article“It Was My Right To Be Given A Hygienic Place To Quarantine And I Wasn’t...
Umesh Munda worked at a pharmaceutical factory in Hyderabad before the lockdown was announced. When asked about his background, he said that he had been working since a very young age. His father...
View ArticleHow Deepak Went From Being A Migrant Worker to A Social Entrepreneur
Deepak Kumar Munda: Migrant Worker to Social Entrepreneur I was deeply affected by the migrant crisis that happened during the Covid-19 lockdown when I saw the plight of migrant workers as they...
View Article“I Only Had Rs. 500, So I Decided I Would Walk The Whole Way”
Mohammad Arbaaz Khan is a 20-year-old boy I met in the village of Bhitiarwa in West Champaran, Bihar. I was talking to Kamlesh Kumar, a migrant who had returned home from Jalandhar, Punjab, when I saw...
View Article5 Times Modi Stayed Silent On Critical Issues
Trigger Warning: Mention of rape “The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells what he knows.” – Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants It is the year 2013, and there is a “decisive,...
View Articleगन्दा है पर धंधा है: जिस्मफरोशी किसी के लिए मज़ा और किसी के लिए सज़ा
देह व्यापार हमारे समाज की एक ऐसी कड़वी सच्चाई है, जिसके बारे में अमूमन हर कोई बात करने से कतराता है। तमाम कानूनों एवं कोशिशों के बावजूद सदियों से यह धंधा पूरी दुनिया में फलता-फूलता रहा है। बावजूद इसके...
View ArticleTo Build Or Not To Build: Does India Really Need A New Parliament?
The new Parliament building, for which our esteemed Prime Minister recently laid the foundation stone, on December 10, 2020, boasts of being a grandiose edifice worthy of an investment of 971 crore...
View ArticleHow The NEP 2020 Fails Girls And Other Marginalised Students
The National Education Policy, 2020 has been much awaited. The draft NEP 2019, which serves as the base to this document, was formulated by a nine-member team, all belonging to upper castes, headed by...
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