Dear Nivedita Menon, Contemporary Feminists Are More Than Just ‘Finger-Tip...
Last October, when law student and Dalit feminist Raya Sarkar put up a crowd-sourced list with names of professors in the Indian academia who have been allegedly sexually predatory towards students, it...
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The Lies Around Simultaneous Elections
In 2 similar interviews, the Prime Minister has encouraged simultaneous elections to be held in the country. In my view, neither is this a financially responsible solution to our expensive elections,...
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What Intersex People Wished Everyone Knew About Them
By Shruti Sunderraman: Ashwini* was 12 when she started playing football. Now 33, she still recalls the day her friends looked at her naked body in the bathroom after a match and ran away from her,...
View Articleभगत सिंह के बारे में झूठ फैलाकर युवाओं को बड़गलाने वालों से सावधान
आज 23 मार्च का दिन पूरे भारत में भगत सिंह की शहादत को बहुत ही जोश से मनाया जायेगा। 23 मार्च, 1931 के दिन ही भगत सिंह, राजगुरु और सुखदेव ने हंसते हुए और गीत गाते हुए फांसी को गले लगाया था। भगत सिंह ने...
View ArticleIt’s Not Always Pleasant, But Here’s How Writing About My Mental Illness...
My mom has asked me on separate occasions why I write about mental health. Specifically, why do I write about having Borderline Personality Disorder? It’s not really a pleasant topic to think about –...
View ArticleThe Inconvenient Truth: Journalism No Longer Speaks Through The Pen But...
“होंठो को सिके देखिये पछताएंगे आप हंगामे जाग उठे हे अकसर घुटन के बाद।” – Shabana Azmi after Gauri Lankesh’s murder. As children, we could never imagine that the real monsters in this world were humans....
View ArticleBJP’s Election Strategist Shubhrastha On Assam Polls, PM’s Silence On...
In the last four years, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has tasted phenomenal success. The party has been in news for a lot of reasons recently – for its aggressive politicisation of the illegal...
View ArticleTamil Band ‘The Casteless Collective’ Proves Music Can Be About Caste, Gender...
The famous musicologist Susan McClary once noted that music should not be treated as a “sublimely meaningless activity” that has managed to escape social significance but must be treated as a medium...
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Is PM Modi’s App Sharing Personal Data With A Third party Without Your...
A French security researcher, who has kept UIDAI on their toes by exposing various security holes in the Aadhaar infrastructure, has claimed in a series of tweets that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
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विकास के नाम पर बनारस से ‘बनारस’ही क्यों खत्म किया जा रहा है?
“बनारस इतिहास से भी पुरातन है, परंपराओं से पुराना है, किंवदंतियों से भी प्राचीन है और जब इन सबको एकत्र कर दें, तो उस संग्रह से भी दोगुना प्राचीन है।” अमेरिकी लेखक मार्क ट्वेन (Mark Twain) द्वारा की गयी...
View ArticleIndia’s Stone Quarries Are Sounding The Death Knell For The Workers
Tuberculosis and silicosis are killing innumerable stone quarry and mine workers in the country. Both private companies and the government are flouting the law and not taking adequate preventive...
View Article#YesAllMen: ‘If You Are Benefiting From Privilege, You’re Likely To Deny It’
Men and the ‘Not all Men’ Syndrome. Privilege is that kind of a thing. If you are born into it, if you have benefited from it, if you are wittingly or unwittingly propagating it, then you are likely to...
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Did You Delete Facebook? But What About WhatsApp?
Several users deleted their Facebook accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data privacy controversy, wherein it was revealed that the social media giant had compromised the private data of...
View Articleईश्वर-अल्लाह के नाम पर जानवरों और इंसानों की बलि का ढोंग बंद करिए
अभी सोशल मीडिया में एक खबर आई, हिंदुस्तान अख़बार के हवाले से, इसके अनुसार एक लड़की ने अपनी आंख ही देवी को चढ़ा दी। इसे हम एक पल में बेवकूफी कह सकते हैं, पर हम में से बड़ी संख्या इसी सोच के चंगुल में हैं,...
View ArticleIn The Name Of Autonomy Of Universities, The Govt Wants To Keep The Poor, Poor
The ‘autonomy’ being granted to more than 60 higher educational institutions (including five central and 21 state universities) by the government, against which an unprecedented number of students were...
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Denied Water, Access To Toilets: How Tribal Women Are Exploited In Assam’s...
In a lesser known part of Assam, far away from the mundane city streets, is a quaint and picturesque tea-garden called Namsang. Not many will be aware of a human world that exists beyond the dense...
View Articleआसान भाषा में समझिए फेसबुक डेटा लीक मामला और इसका इंडिया कनेक्शन
केंब्रिज एनालिटिका का डेटा लीक मामला पूरी दुनिया के साथ-साथ भारत भी पहुंचा। इसके बाद व्हाट्सएप पर मैसेज आया कि यदि कमेंट में BFF टाइप करने पर आपके फेसबुक का रंग हरा हो जाता है तो आपका डेटा सुरक्षित है,...
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In 3 Simple Charts, The Inside Story Of Cambridge Analytica’s Work On Indian...
The BJP and the Congress have been fighting each other ever since Cambridge Analytica’s work in India started getting reported. A new round of this war of words took place on Tuesday after Christopher...
View Articleरामनवमी की झांकी में शम्भूलाल रैगर की अराधना मेरे भगवान श्री राम का अपमान है
वैसे तो भारतीय संस्कृति में भगवान श्रीराम किसी परिचय के मोहताज नहीं हैं। त्रेतायुग से लेकर कलयुग तक उनकी प्रासंगिकता और उनके प्रति आस्था में कहीं भी कोई कमी होती नज़र नहीं आई। अयोध्या का नाम मन में आते...
View ArticleShashi Tharoor Speaks Out On BJP’s Version Of Hinduism And The Need To Fight...
I recently got a chance to sit down with Dr Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. Dr Tharoor also currently serves as Chairman of the...
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