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How Our Institutions Are Pushing Survivors Of Sexual Violence To Suicide
Earlier this year, a 17-year-old girl was gang raped at the MLA hostel she was staying at. She tried to commit suicide owing to the pressure to withdraw her complaint but was prevented from doing so...
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An Eyewitness Account Of Assam Floods That The Media Isn’t Talking About
Monsoon in Assam creates moods of both joy and grief for its people. Being a primarily agricultural state, the farmers of the region are largely dependent on the rains for cultivation. After all, the...
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Paintings Inside My Head
Psychology and Art have been two equally attractive but mutually exclusive interests for me. That was until I enrolled in the Inktober challenge for 2017 on Instagram, and became a witness to the...
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This Is Why Teachers Will Decide India’s Future
Every time I look back and think of when I was a child, there are always certain instances that keep coming back to me. A lot of these memories involve my school and teachers. In fact, my decision to...
View ArticleIf It Is Gauri Lankesh Today, It Could Be Us Tomorrow
With utmost grief and profound fear, we bid farewell to one of India’s bravest journalist – Gauri Lankesh. Grief because she was the mouthpiece of several common people and fear because these are dark...
View ArticleIf You Give A Damn About These 8 Issues, You Know What It Means To Speak Up
Have you ever been bothered by the world that you live in? Do you ever think of raising your voice to start a change? What stops you? All of us want to live in a better world. Some of us find the...
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माननीय प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी पत्रकार गौरी लंकेश जी की निर्मम हत्या के बाद निखिल दधीच नाम के एक शख्स नें ट्विटर पर उन्हें कुतिया कहा और उनका समर्थन करने वालों को पिल्ला कहा। पता चला कि आप इस शख्स को...
View ArticleThis Powerful ‘Sex Ki Adalat’ Episode Calls Out Our Obsession With A Male Child
Why is there a preference for a male child and what are the misconceptions related to factors that determine the sex of a newborn? The episode presents the unusual instance of a case filed by a woman...
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What Stopping Women From Attending Funerals Does To Their Mourning
“The embers were still hot when we got there, red hot. We had to put the water to cool it down. There was no one to help us. We had to put the embers out. Then we raked it together, and collected the...
View ArticleHow We Made A Health App That Works In Remote Rural Areas Without Internet
By: Biraj Swain, Dr Meenakshi Jain and Dr Gauri Bisht Over half a century ago, communications guru and public intellectual Marshall McLuhan predicted that electronic interdependence will make the world...
View Articleऔपचारिक हिंदी और प्रैक्टिकल हिंदी में ज़मीन आसमान का फर्क क्यूं?
कुछ महीने पहले टेलीविजन पर एक विज्ञापन आया। इस विज्ञापन में रेलवे स्टेशन पर बैठे कुलियों के समूह में से एक सदस्य ‘स्मार्टफोन’ पर ताज़ा खबरें पढ़कर अपने साथियों को सुना रहा था। उससे थोड़ी दूर बैठे ‘व्हाइट...
View ArticleThe One Thing That Helped Me Battle Depression And Survive IIT
By: Aditya Mani Jha Growing up, I was a fairly stocky kid, peaking at a level that can be called “fat but short of obese”. By the time I reached college, my growth spurt meant that some of the puppy...
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What The Fundamental Right To Privacy Means For The LGBTQ Community
“Woke up on the right side of the bed today, but the government won’t know which side anymore because right to privacy.” A friend of mine recently left this message on social media. In its dark comical...
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हिंदी पर भाषण और निबंध छोड़िए अपराजिता के कूल हिमोजी देखिए
आज ज़माना है ‘कूल’ बनने का है और ज़माने के साथ चलना तो हमारी फितरत होती है। ये कूलनेस कपड़ों से लेकर लोगों की बातों तक में भी नज़र आती है। जब बात मैसेज की आती है तो इमोजी हमारे चैट को कूल बनाने का काम करते...
View ArticleIt’s ‘Simran’ Time. And It’s Time To Reflect On How We Treat Divorcees
While Kangana hops from one studio to the other, speaking her mind out and spilling beans from pods that people knew existed but never spoke about. We are forgetting something – that besides being one...
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I Live With Blindness, But It Is Not The Hardest Thing I Have To Deal With
By Nidhi Goyal: While in Uttarakhand on a research trip, I drank water that had not been filtered or boiled. This is not something I usually do, but if I had said no, the family I was visiting would...
View ArticleWhy Do We Love To Hate Rahul Gandhi?
Two days back, while scrolling through my facebook feed, I came upon a live video of a speech by Rahul Gandhi. It was already halfway through, but I decided to stop scrolling past him (which is what I...
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The Economic And Political Weekly Is Dying
I began my association with the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) in early 1979, when I sent a hand-written book review to Krishna Raj – my first contribution to EPW, from the field where I was...
View ArticleWatch: How Mumbai ‘Rewarded’ The Heroes Who Cleaned Up After The 2017 Floods
“They don’t allow us to touch because our hands and feet are dirty. They say we stink. They yell at us, hit us, ask us to go away.” Nana Kale recounts how he is treated after working at his job:...
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‘I Write This Letter As A Young Girl Whose Brother Was Killed In Cold Blood’
By Shriya Pande: Respected Mr Prime Minister, I write to you with a heavy heart. My only brother, Dr Shashwat Pande, a bright, young doctor, aspiring to serve humanity, got brutally murdered in the...
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