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Explained: How The Left-Right Political Spectrum Does And Doesn’t Affect...
We regularly come in contact with terms like political left and right, some of us might have tried to search it in a dictionary or might have googled but even then, many of us would have ended up in...
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Learning To Fight My Addiction To Porn Is Difficult, But I Refuse To Give Up
I remember the first time I ever masturbated. It was in my washroom, just a week before my thirteenth birthday. I had previously ‘edged’—always stopped before climax. But that day was different, for a...
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A Peek Into The Life Of Women And Girls In Afghanistan
It was 2012, and there was news about a woman who had been shot to death for adultery in Afghanistan, her name was Najiba. This would have hit the headlines if it was the West, but it was Afghanistan...
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The Real Untold Story Of The Woman Who Built Harvest Gold Bread
Taab Siddiqui, Founder, Harvest Gold “It may seem unusual coming from a woman, but gender biases never bothered me, not even back in 1993, when I started the business of manufacturing bread. If people...
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Lights, Camera, Propaganda!
“Jab sarkaarein badalti hain, toh sabse pehle badalta hai syllabus, aur phir badalta hai media.” (Meaning: When governments change, the first thing that changes is syllabus and then it is the media.)...
View ArticleI Can’t Be The Only One Who’s Tired Of Living In An Ignorant, Capitalist,...
I can’t be the only one who took certain chapters in secondary school science extra seriously—he chapters on environment, natural disasters, man-made disasters and climate change. I observed many years...
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In A Building With 3 Rusted Pillars How Significant Is The 4th Pillar: Media...
20th Century was dominated by historic shifts in political demographics of the world order. Kingdoms collapsed and suffrages were established in countries being ruled by colonizers or tyrants for...
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The Interim Budget For 2019 Looks Like A Satirical Political Gimmick
For the 109-minutes of innings played by the BJP government put forward by Piyush Goyal, a last stunt before the country subsides into the phase of the election ruckus, the Financial Budget of 2019...
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Why Liberal Leftism Is Mostly A Sinister Ideology In Practice
In 2018, one of the defining moments in recent Indian politics occurred when the BJP managed to end the 25-year old rule of the Left-front government in Tripura. Post which, a statue of Vladimir Lenin,...
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Last Minute Welfare May Not Yield The Intended Result For The Modi Govt
People are mostly economic beings. In the words of one of India’s greatest sages, Swamy Vivekananda, “He walks, and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards… It will take ages for the head to go...
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What’s The Reality Of That ‘Fancy’ Higher Education In The US?
Indian economist late Ashok Mitra wrote of the youth leaving India for Western nations in 1974, “Those who make the getaway do not stop to consider the plight of the millions who cannot escape, who...
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What I Got For Taking A Blood-Soaked Road Accident Victim To A Hospital In UP
In the summer of 2017, I was travelling to the district hospital (DH) in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, on official work for an organisation I was working with. It was a fine, sunny day. Traffic was moving as...
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Are We Doing Our Part To Eradicate Child Labour?
There are 1.01 crore children between the ages of 5-14 being made to work as child labourers in India, as per Government of India’s Children In India 2018 report based on Census 2011 data. The ILO...
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लड़कियों को क्यों बिगड़ना सिखाती है ‘गज़ब वुमनिया’
“ठीक से बैठो”, “30 की हो गई और अभी तक शादी नहीं की”, “अरे जॉब करके क्या करोगी, आगे बच्चा ही तो पालना है”, “बड़ी बेशर्म हो इतने छोटे कपड़े पहनी हो”, ये वो बाते हैं जो हर लड़की को शायद लूप मोड में समाज...
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What’s In Store For The Bru Refugees In Exodus?
The north-eastern region of India has seen many episodes of armed conflict and generalised violence, since India’s independence in 1947. Some of these situations caused massive internal displacement,...
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Sabarimala: Women And The Gods At Crossroads
“I like stories where women save themselves.” – Neil Gaiman Picture a young lady squatting on the cold cement floor on a winter evening, incessantly coughing, frying fish, with a purdah covering her...
View ArticleWhy Are Adivasis Invisible And Unheard Of In Hindi Cinema?
A couple of days ago, I was talking to my friend Biju Toppo, a National Award-winning documentary filmmaker. I had casually asked him at that time, “Why is the Adivasi community invisible and unheard...
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Out Of 6,043 Faculty Members In 23 IITs, Why Do Only 170 Belong To SC/ST?
On January 2, 2019, the Union Minister of the Human Research Development appraised the parliament about the exact number of reserved category faculty members in the Indian Institutes of Technology....
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Cape Town, December 2, 1967: The Story Of The World’s Very First Heart...
Louise Washkansky was born in Lithuania and had migrated to South Africa as a boy. He served in the South African Army, and did his tour of duty in North Africa. He loved the sports, the outdoors, and...
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Young India Needs A Sense Of Purpose, Not SOPs
The author Ruchi Gupta is Jt Secretary AICC, and In-charge NSUI. Sixty per cent of our country is under the age of 30 years. Yet there is little substantive participation of our young in defining the...
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