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दुनिया का पहला गणतंत्र माने जाने वाले वैशाली से दुनिया के सबसे वड़े गणतंत्र भारत तक का सफ़र काफी रोमांचक रहा है। तमाम राजनीतिक सिद्धान्तों और व्यवहारिक उठापटक के बाद दुनिया ने एक ऐसी व्यवस्था विकसित की...
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Once A National Level Archer, Now A Street Vendor
As the cold winter in Assam is nearing its end, Buli Basumatary is trying her best to sell all the oranges that she bought from Bhutan, in a small market in a remote part of Chirang district of...
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Cutting A Woman’s Genitalia Is Still A ‘Tradition’ In India
During a TED Talk in 2015, Khadija Gbla recalled how she was subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a child in Sierra Leone. “She took hold of what I now know to be my clitoris, she took that...
View Articleये पोस्ट ट्रुथ पॉलिटिक्स क्या है?
ब्रिटेन का यूरोपियन यूनियन से बाहर हो जाना और ट्रम्प का अमेरिका का राष्ट्रपति बनना, दोनों में एक समानता है – “पोस्ट ट्रुथ पॉलिटिक्स” पोस्ट ट्रुथ पॉलिटिक्स है क्या ? 16 नवम्बर, 2016 को Oxford...
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Racism In India Is Prevalent In Many Ways
The three recent incidents against people from Northeast which came into limelight from social media has deeply disturbed many. It is neither the first time that I read such a disturbing news nor will...
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Three Time National Athletics Champion Now A Daily Wage Labourer
Lilawati Daimary with her medals . An earlier article on Youth Ki Awaaz on Buli Basumatary was fruitful in helping her get noticed by the government. Another story of a lady who was once a Three Time...
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The JNU Row Was Orchestrated, Say Former ABVP Members
By Jatin Goraya and Pradeep Narwal: Editor’s note: Jatin Goraya and Pradeep Narwal, both JNU students, resigned from JNU-ABVP last year over the alleged role played by ABVP because of differences with...
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24 Million Indians Suffer Because We Think This Issue Is A Joke
As a child, one of the toughest issues I had to overcome was that of frequent bed-wetting. It was something that would keep me up late into the night, worrying. My parents’ frustrated telling-offs...
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Believe It Or Not: Men In This UP Village Can’t Marry Because There’s No...
By Manvendra Malhotra and Saurabh Sharma for Youth Ki Awaaz: Jagmohan Singh, 48, of Sarvan village, 95 km from Agra city, in Uttar Pradesh has been condemned to remain unmarried because electricity has...
View ArticleInmates Crawled Naked: The Full Horror Story Of Delhi’s Home For Mentally...
Last week, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), sent out a notice to the Delhi government in which it made some shocking observations about the Asha Kiran complex, which houses government run homes...
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Give Me A Sanitary Pad And Make A Change!
In 2014, I set out on a journey travelling from village to village through rural India in a grassroots campaign to break menstruation myths and taboos, and empower young women with information about...
View ArticleThe Valentine’s Day Guide To Self Love For Single Women
By Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan for Youth Ki Awaaz: These past two weeks, I’ve shuttled between three cities like a crazy ping pong ball, which has given me a lot of thinking time to get down to this...
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By Paying You ₹635 Per Month, Is The Govt. Robbing You Off Your Facilities?
The Economic Survey 2016-17, released by the Union Finance Ministry of India has proposed a Universal Basic Income (UBI) for 75% of India’s population. This income will amount to ₹7620 per year, or...
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Putting the ‘U’ In Beautiful And Letting Go Of Our Fairness Obsession
“Wanted: Tall, handsome and a well-placed groom for a fair and well-educated girl.” Turn to the matrimonial ads page of any Indian newspaper and the line I began with summarises what you are expected...
View Articleक्रिकेट वर्ल्ड कप जीतने के बाद भी इतना सन्नाटा क्यों है भाई?
भारत ने पाकिस्तान को हराकर दृष्टिबाधित क्रिकेट टी-ट्वेंटी वर्ल्ड कप जीत लिया है। इस फाइनल मुकाबले में पहले बल्लेबाजी करते हुए पाकिस्तान ने पूरे 20 ओवर में 8 विकेट के पतन पर 197 रन बनाये। पाकिस्तान की...
View ArticlePartial Liberalism: Why Infosys CEO Had To Specify That He’s A ‘Kshatriya’...
The dominance of caste in Indian society and the related mentality has continually wreaked havoc on our society and its most vulnerable inhabitants. The division is so deep that no one has the courage...
View ArticleHow Federal Is The Indian Foreign Policy?
The ideas and practices of democracy and federalism in India have fundamentally changed from the pre-liberalisation period to the post-liberalisation period. Against this backdrop, it is important to...
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₹3,500 Crore Lying Unused Under Nirbhaya Scheme, Women’s Safety Is Still Not...
In the winter of 2012, a daughter of India was brutally gang raped by six monsters in a moving bus. She was tortured, penetrated with an iron rod and was thrown from the moving bus to die. All this...
View ArticleFocus On Your Rotis, Ladies
Warning: This article is evidently high on satire. Do not continue reading if you’re one of those pseudo-intellectuals. :’) Feminism (n): The advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of equality of...
View ArticleUP Elections 2017: How The Elephant Disappeared From The Poll Circus
By Sajjan Kumar: The formation of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on April 14, 1984, was symptomatic of the larger trend of the replacement of class by ascriptive identities in the socio-political...
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