Bengaluru Is About To Spend ₹1800 Cr On A Bad Solution To Its Traffic Problem
By Varun Hemachandran: Bengaluru went from being the Garden City of India to India’s answer to Silicon Valley virtually overnight. The city’s pensioners made way for code-spanking techies who thronged...
View ArticleHow Can I Make Sure I’m Not Sexist In My Relationship?
By Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan for Youth Ki Awaaz: Hello everyone! Let’s jump right in. T asked: I am 27, and am planning to have an arranged marriage. Tinder, OKC, Aisle etc, failed to find a match for...
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What We Must Do To Protect The Rights Of 2 Million Children On India’s Streets
By Merril Diniz: We meet them on the streets every day, smiling faces, selling us balloons, asking for a bite of our sandwich, or washing utensils at our favourite dhaba. We do not know their names,...
View ArticleOur Response To These 3 Films Shows The Kind Of Feminism We Find ‘Acceptable’
By Aditya Sharma: The relationship media and women share, precedes the age of Raj and Simran. It is older than “Sholay” and more dramatic than, “Basanti, inn kutto ke saamne mat nachna” (Basanti, don’t...
View Article6 Times Tanmay Bhat Broke Stereotypes And Forced Us Out Of Our Comfort Zones
By Rohini Banerjee: The comedy scene in India has been going through somewhat of a transitional phase. While on the one hand, you have mainstream television comedy by the likes of Kapil Sharma – who...
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“Not Athletes Boycotting Iran, But Iran Boycotting Athletes Who Refuse...
By Masih Alinejad: Editor’s note: On October 29, Heena Sidhu, India’s first pistol shooter to win a gold medal at the World Cup in 2013, declared that she will not be participating in the Asian Air...
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In Photos: Revisiting The Sites Of 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots 31 Years Later
By Mili Agarwal: October 31, 1984, was one of the most violent days in the history of India’s capital, Delhi. In the morning, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh...
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4 Women Speak Up About How Sexism At Work Can Ruin Careers
By Shambhavi Saxena: “As I was ready to blow out the candles on my cake, my male colleague commented, ‘Blow, Sonam, we know you’re good at it!'” Writer and activist Sonam Mittal was shocked to hear...
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JNU में इस्लामोफोबिया?
हसन अकरम: पिछले क़रीब दस महीनों से जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय सुर्ख़ियों में रहा है। इस बीच उस संस्थान में तीन बड़ी घटनाएं घटीं; देश-विरोधी नारे लगना, प्रधानमंत्री समेत दस प्रसिद्ध व्यक्तियों का पुतला...
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It’s A Hard Life For Dwarfs In India
By Antara Sengupta for Youth Ki Awaaz: Mahendra Vinayak Agavni, 45, a resident of Kurla in Mumbai has had a tough day in the city’s suburban trains. It’s an ordeal he faces pretty much everywhere he...
View Article5 Ways To Protect Yourself From Cyber Bullies
By Saswati Chatterjee: The Internet has become a powder keg of sorts. On the one hand, it’s drawing people together, making communities that never existed, and connecting the world in amazing ways. On...
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The Beat Within
By Nandana Sen: Lata is late again. I scramble around in panic, throwing towels over books, dragging buckets and pans under ever-multiplying leaks in the ceiling. Rain hammers down with the roar of ten...
View ArticleAre You A Terrorist-Sympathiser If You Question The Bhopal Encounter Killings?
By Abhishek Jha: The family members of the 8 alleged SIMI activists, who were shot and killed in an encounter recently, are about to file a complaint at the MIDC police station in Solapur, Maharashtra,...
View Articleअपनी किताब ‘बिहार से तिहाड़’पर कन्हैया कुमार से सीधी बातचीत
अभिषेक झा: JNU के कन्हैया कुमार पिछले कुछ दिनों में जितना चर्चा में थे उसके बाद राष्ट्रीय राजनीति में उनके संभावित भविष्य को नकारा नहीं जा सकता है। कन्हैया, JNU में 9 फरवरी को लगाए गए देश विरोधी नारों...
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Is It True: That A Woman’s Uterus Can Fall Out Of Her Body?
By Saswati Chatterjee: Well, that’s a terrifying question, one which might have people rolling their eyes and say, ‘no, obviously not.” It sounds like something out of some bad horror film or some ’80s...
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How Women Took Charge Of Their Own Rights In Post-Independent India
By Shambhavi Saxena for Cake: By the time we’re in our teens, all of us Indian school kids have memorized by rote the names of our country’s freedom fighters. Today, these names line the streets of the...
View ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before The Flood’ Proves That We’re All Fucked
By Anshul Tewari: We will either be lauded, or vilified by our future generations. That’s the note on which Leonardo DiCaprio ends “Before The Flood” – his documentary with National Geographic. The...
View Articleकोर्ट और सरकार की तकरार
शुभम कमल: यदि आप लोगों से पूछेंगे कि इस दुनिया में न्याय कौन करता है तो लोगों का मत होगा ईश्वर और देश की अदालतें या कोर्ट यानि न्यायपालिका (या ज्यूडीशियरी)। अब क्यूंकि ईश्वर को किसी ने देखा नही जाना...
View Articleबनस्थली विद्यापीठ यानी लड़कियों का जेलखाना
निखिल आनंद गिरि: छठ के मौके पर बिहार के समस्तीपुर से दिल्ली लौटते वक्त इस बार जयपुर वाली ट्रेन में रिज़र्वेशन मिली जो दिल्ली होकर गुज़रती है। मालूम पड़ा कि दिल्ली से कहीं ज़्यादा बिहार का ठेकुआ जयपुर...
View ArticleIs Chivalry My Patriarchal Privilege Or Is It Just Me Being Nice?
By Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan for Youth Ki Awaaz: Hello everyone, What a week we’re having, eh? Let’s take a load off and look at today’s question instead. F asked: I’m all for gender equality, Aunty...
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