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Create Jobs, Provide Food – Supreme Court Tells Centre To Fight Drought In India
By Jitendra: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. In its final judgement aimed at providing relief to the drought-affected people of India, the Supreme Court directed the Centre...
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5 Myths About Trans People We Have Got To Stop Believing
By Anjana Radhakrishnan for Cake: Our society doesn’t raise us to engage in dialogues about gender and sexuality. We’re taught from a young age to be ashamed of our sexuality and to consider ‘deviant’...
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By ‘Daring To Fall In Love’ I See Inter-Caste Couples Challenge India’s...
By Prem: Sairat Over the last three weeks, I have been encouraging most of my friends to watch the Nagraj Manjule directed Marathi movie, ‘Sairat‘, insisting that people take their friends and families...
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Meet The Kickass IAS Officers Of UP Who’re Using Smartphones To Do Their Jobs...
By Prajwala Hegde for Youth Ki Awaaz: A new breed of tech-friendly IAS officers is at the forefront of mobile governance in Uttar Pradesh, using smartphones to converse with stakeholders and bring...
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Why India Needs To Realise It Can’t Put All Waste In One Basket
By Sunita Narain: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. We know that we have a serious garbage problem. But the problem is not about finding the right technology for waste...
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Monsoon Is Here! But It Won’t Help With Drought Relief Till We Get One Thing...
By Richard Mahapatra: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Will the coming monsoon solve the looming water crisis? By the time you read this edition, the monsoon might have...
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I Just Got ‘Friendzoned’ By A Girl I Really Like, Should I Be Angry?
By Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan for Youth Ki Awaaz: Welcome back to the space where I tell you what’s what and you disagree with me loudly in the comments section. I love the smell of arguments in the...
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How Careless Dumping Of Radioactive Material In Delhi’s Mayapuri Has Damaged...
By Abhimanyu Kumar for Youth Ki Awaaz: Six years ago, an incident occurred in Delhi which has had hardly any precedence in India, except the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, which was similar but not the same. In...
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‘Kill Muslims’ Is OK To Say But Make No Fun Of Tendulkar. Excuse Me?
By Lipi Mehta: I have been following Tanmay Bhat on Snapchat for a while and honestly, I look forward to his Snap Stories, however ridiculous they might be. I loved that he explained why feminism isn’t...
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The World Is Set To Lose 31 Heritage Sites. Still Don’t Believe In Climate...
By Kiran Pandey: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. A mangrove forest in the Sundarbans. Source: Flickr The world’s most famous natural and cultural heritage sites are...
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A Powerful New Comic Tells Unheard Real-Life Stories Of Struggle And Injustice
By First Hand: ‘First Hand’ is an anthology of non-fiction graphic narratives – the first of its kind in India – that narrates the stories of people whose voices have been lost in the drone of 24-hour...
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Student Member Reveals The Complete Sham That Was The FTII Academic Council...
By Harishankarnachimuthu. K: “Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever It has been almost 7 months since the most chaotic albeit eventful period of my life in FTII as a student came to an end....
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When Was The Last Time You Drank Water From A Lake?
By Arun Krishnamurthy: My life in Chennai had always been dominated by coffee, movies and beaches. Chennai’s rivers, lakes and animals didn’t matter to me, just like it didn’t to the vast majority in...
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A Prayer For Elephants: Why The Abuse And Slavery Must Stop NOW
By Merril Diniz: Another gentle soul has passed. Maduraivalli was her name. She was captured as a calf and lived for years as a temple elephant in Madurai, and the wounds that bore deep into her feet...
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How Thousands Of Tribals In MP Have Become ‘Refugees’ In Their Own Land
By Kundan Pandey: In the bucolic uplands of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh, a new chapter in the controversial Sardar Sarovar Dam is unfolding. And this one is beyond imagination. Before the displaced...
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How These 20-Year-Old Wazirpur Workers Are Winning Their Fight For Rights:...
By Abhishek Jha for Youth Ki Awaaz: Around 40 workers, mostly in their 20s, employed at the mobile charger power bank manufacturing SB Industries in North-West Delhi’s Wazirpur Industrial Area, have...
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In A Country Obsessed With Fair Skin, The ‘Fairest’ Face Discrimination The Most
By Swati Verma: It was in the winter of 2005 that I first saw Suraj. With his almost translucent skin, hair as white as freshly fallen snow and a curious absence of colour from his skin; it was hard to...
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‘For The Love For A Dying River’: How I Found Yamuna Abandoned By Delhi
By Ishan Marvel: For obvious reasons, great cities have often cropped up around rivers. And over time, the connection evolves beyond practicality, so that the river does not remain simply a source of...
View ArticleDear Aunty, I’m A Feminist, But My Own Family Is Sexist And Homophobic. Help?
By Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan for Youth Ki Awaaz: Boy, is it hot or is it hot? And not just from us burning down patriarchy either. If you’re all settled with a cool drink, we’ll begin! R asked: I come...
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“Love Will Drown Hate”: Twitter Expresses Shock And Solidarity After Orlando...
By Rohini Banerjee: At least 50 people were killed in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, when a gunman targeted a gay nightclub, making it one of the deadliest civilian attacks in the United States since...
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