Writing This May Be Career Suicide, But Toxic Work Culture Must Be Exposed
To Buy or Not to Abide: A qualitative, ethnocentric introspection of my experience teaching sociology at Chumba Gore Pool. Abstract: All my options are exhausted. All email queries, all in-person...
View ArticleWhy Ed-Tech Startups Are Teaching Coding To Six-Year-Olds
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget he is someone today.” — Stacia Tauscher This quote fits perfectly on today’s pushy parents. The ones who’re anxious about their...
View ArticleThe Daily Sexism At My Home Makes Me Want To Run Away
Trigger Warning: Mention of self-harm They say the ‘outside world’ brims of danger. I, however, never had the need to step outside to face the cruelties of the world. It was right at home. When I say...
View ArticleCOVID-19, Unresolved Grief, And The Workplace
By Kuber Bathla: The COVID-19 crisis has triggered mental health crises all over the globe and has forced people to confront losses of the past, at a time when the future is uncertain. A sense of grief...
View ArticleMy Conversation With 3 Farmers On Their Trust Issue With MSP Was Revealing...
It would perhaps not be incorrect to say that the overview of the recently passed farm bills is to say that the farmers, rotting in the clutches of the APMCs, will now finally be liberated by the...
View ArticleI Lost My Eyes To Survive TB: What India’s TB Patients Go Through
Statistics tell you about the burden of TB in India – but nothing tells you about the burden that TB patients carry. TB is curable, even preventable, and yet, so many people die from it every single...
View ArticleAre Social Media Interactions Under Threat In ‘New’ India?
We become what we think, preached Buddha. If you are often active on social media, which I think you are, you already have made conclusions regarding the culture of networking and interactions that...
View ArticleWhat Does Google’s Crash Last Week Say About Our Digital Carbon Footprint?
Written by: Aiswarya Anil A few days ago, the world’s largest and most-used search engine stopped working, also shutting down all the other services that it provides. Google, along with YouTube,...
View ArticleHow Did The Indian Media Cover Menstruation During The Pandemic?
Posted by Subhiksha Manoj with inputs from Pratyusha Varanasi and Bharti Kannan from Boondh The media has a huge role to play in the way people perceive the world around them. It keeps us in a constant...
View Article5 Times TV Shows Trivialised Sexual Harassment At Work
Written by: Mimansa Sidhnath The effects of media on the audience has been a popular field of study since the time of the First World War. Back then, it was limited to the study of the effects of...
View ArticleSexual Harassment At Work: Does Intent Matter More Than Perception?
Written by: Saloni Borse The #MeToo movement saw a lot of women speaking up against the sexual harassment they faced in the workplace. From sportspersons to celebrities, women from all walks of life...
View ArticleHow Did A Young Privileged Woman Like Me End Up In A Psych Ward
I am a 34-year-old in a loving marriage. I am the firstborn to an upper-middle-class family and I had the privilege of having easy access to education. I am studying to become a pulmonologist and...
View Article“In Winter, Electricity Disappears In Kashmir Like The Promises Of Politicians”
It is a cold December evening. My family has gathered around the furnace, to get rid of the merciless cold of ‘ Chilai Kalan‘ (40-day period of harsh winter). The light has gone, now God knows better...
View ArticleInterview With An Environmental Activist: “Adani Is Going To Destroy Goa To...
In conversation with Avertino Miranda. An environmental activist and Coordinator in the Goa Green Brigade and part of the resistance in Goa against the 3 projects passed by the government. Why are...
View ArticleHow The Youth Of India Shook 2020, Reclaiming Its Right To Dissent
2020 was a tumultuous year with the COVID-19 Pandemic, but going beyond the pandemic, it was a year when the youth of India spoke truth to power and stood up against the policies of the ruling...
View Article‘I Will Become What I Want To Become’
By Jamuna Solanke/PARI On the day my SSC [secondary school certificate] results were to come, my condition was like that of a cricket ball after it is hit. You know how everyone watches just that ball?...
View Article“2020 Was The Gap Year I Didn’t Ask For, But The Break I Definitely Needed”
2020 has been a ride. There is no denying that. In the era of Gen-Z, 2020 has its place deserved in the seventh circle of hell, or so the memes have me convinced. At the risk of the spiral of silence,...
View ArticleSpreading Disinformation The BJP Way: Tweet, Cite, Delete
There are forms of political skullduggery, which are imperative know-how in Politics 101. Young starry-eyed neophytes in politics are acquainted with the what, when, and hows of discreetly carrying out...
View Article“अनुशासन से लबरेज़ किसान इस आंदोलन को जीत चुके हैं, फासीवादी सत्ता बुरी तरह...
दिल्ली के बॉर्डर से बहादुरगढ़ बाईपास तक बीस किलोमीटर में फैला आंदोलनकारी किसानों का काफिला। काफिले में आए हुए अलग-अलग गाँव के किसान, जिन्होंने अपने लाव-लश्कर सत्ता की सड़क पर डाले हुए हैं। किसान, जो गरीब...
View ArticleWhat Does “White Privilege” Look Like? Look At The Mob On Capitol Hill
Want to know what “white privilege” looks like? It is being able to lynch a person in the streets. It is being able to drive around without the lingering fear of cops pulling you over. It is being able...
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