Child Labour Is A Roadblock To Achieving SDG On Education For All
I have been working in the development sector for a long time. I used to go to villages quite often because of my job profile. During the lockdown, I was working from home. Due to this reason, I could...
View ArticleOne More Trans Life Lost Owing To Medical Negligence
Trigger warning: suicide, transphobia Anannyah Kumari Alex, a 28-year-old trans woman was found dead at her Kochi residence, on the 20 th of this month. Alex was found hanging in her bedroom, by her...
View Article“Future Belongs To Rationality Not Religion”: Looking For Alternatives In Assam
In the near future, inclusivity seems to be the only option left for Assam, to reach its development goals. If one has to jot down the basic features of the Assam Economy, one must include low...
View ArticleHere Is Why You Should Netflix And Chill While Watching Ratched
Erving Goffman was way ahead of his time. Goffman’s work on asylum was among the first sociological scrutiny of patients living in psychiatric asylums, from their perspective. He based his...
View ArticleWho Is Bal Sahitya Puraskar Recipient Saridharam Hansda? Find Out More
It is said that a writer attains perfection only when he writes a composition for children. Writing for children is challenging and hard work. Among the Santali writers who have made the language and...
View ArticleOpinion: Aggressive Nationalism And Nationalism Are Two Shades Of The Same...
This article contains phrases that can hurt the feelings of a nationalist. We are taught to be nationalists right from our childhood. I remember drawing the Indian tricolour and how I used to feel this...
View ArticleLearn The A, B, C Of Diversity And Inclusion At The Workplace
The aversion towards building a safe and inclusive workplace for employees in a workplace stems largely from a lack of knowledge. Corporate structures are unable to understand how diversity and...
View Article‘Halla Bol’: Breaking The Silence Around Female Sexual Liberation
Living in a world that desperately tries to compartmentalize people and put them in boxes, sex and sexual liberation remain to be things that we do not talk about. Besides the intense stigma attached...
View ArticleHow The Pandemic Affected Me And The Politics Of My Country
When we first moved nearer to the capital city of Delhi from our sleepy little shire in the hills, I couldn’t but act like the poster child for the pre-pubescent, starry eyed, fresh cheeked girl you...
View ArticleMisogyny Is A Red Flag For Violence Against Women. Why Aren’t We Taking It...
Trigger warning: Mentions of rape When news broke that Indian rapper Honey Singh’s wife had accused him of domestic violence, I don’t think any of us were genuinely surprised. Since 2013, the rapper...
View ArticleLooking After Those Who Looked After Us: Gendered Intersections In Geriatric...
Owing to fertility rates reducing and life expectancy increasing, the number of people involved in caring for the elderly has drastically reduced. Researchers of gerontology have noticed a sharp...
View ArticleOpinion: ‘Doctors Are Not Gods On Earth Anymore, They Are Hungry For Money’
I usually write Hindi articles, but I recently received a heartfelt note from a grieving son, Shawn Kahlon, who happens to be a close friend of one of my near ones. After reading the note, I could not...
View ArticleRIP Annanyah, A Bright Trans Life Lost Due To Medical Negligence
Trigger warning: suicide, transphobia Anannyah Kumari Alex, a 28-year-old trans woman was found dead at her Kochi residence, on the 20 th of this month. Alex was found hanging in her bedroom, by her...
View ArticleDid You Receive A Sex Ed Talk? If Not, You May Want To Check These Sex...
I went to a school under the aegis of the central government. The physical and educational infrastructure of the school was crumbling, but it tried its best to provide for its many hundreds of...
View ArticleJab Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya? The Dichotomy Of Young India’s Love Life
“I would talk about love, sexuality and gender openly at college, with my friends. We would dissect such topics with ease. But the moment I reached home, all the openness vanished. I wouldn’t feel...
View ArticleHow Neo-Imperialism Sugarcoats Road Projects As Developmental Activities
Early imperialism was characterised by ecological colonialism; that is to say, the ecology of a region was shaped by colonial interventions. While the interventions themselves were acts committed in...
View ArticleWhat Keeps Students From Small Towns From ‘Taking Breaks’ In Career?
In a world that runs high on LinkedIn profiles, articulate CVs and hustle culture, nobody has the time to stop and stare. Each step of your professional life has to be meticulously planned and...
View ArticleHow Body-shaming And Toxic Workplaces Make It Harder To Be A Plus-Size Model...
The perfect body for a model is supposed to be lean and tall. Therefore, the average size of a model in the industry should be less than UK 4, and anything beyond that is deemed unacceptable. However,...
View Article4 Critical Hurdles Preventing Trans People In India From Getting Vaccinated
Millions of Indians have been vaccinated against COVID-19 as the country aims at vaccinating its entire adult population by the end of this year. While many experts have prophesized that this is an...
View ArticleWhat Are The Origins Of The Taliban And How Did The US Forge A Feeble Peace...
On the 15th of August, as India celebrated the 75th year of its independence, a country was captured by an extremist group while its leader left his people to their poor fate. After seeing 40 years of...
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