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In An Odisha Slum, How These Inspiring Young People Fought To Send Children...
In a makeshift one-room house in a Bhubaneshwar slum lives a family of five. Rudra, the youngest, is six years old. Every day he sees his two brothers off to school. His mother reassures him each day...
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This Step To Help Visually Impaired Students Actually Has A Damaging Impact
In the ‘Digital India’ of today, there is a need to take another look at the modes of assessment for blind and visually impaired students. Do you remember playing Chinese whispers as kids? Whispering...
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राजस्थान के इस गांव में है भाइयों के बीच पत्नी बांटने की प्रथा
अनीश गुप्ता और त्रिश्ना सरकार ये लेख Down to Earth के लेख का हिंदी अनुवाद है राजस्थान के अलवर से 66 किमी दूर मनखेरा गांव। पूरे गांव में जाट समुदाय का बोलबाला। जनसंख्या के हिसाब से भी और रुतबे के हिसाब...
View ArticleWhy Did These Lawyers Want The Court To Go Easy On Jyoti Singh’s Rapists?
Describing the crime as a ‘story from a different world’, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death penalty for the four men convicted of brutally gang-raping Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old...
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A Letter To A Nation Which Is In Love With ‘Puppets’
To You, Some people develop obsessions with certain words and like to implement this term in every sphere of their lives. You remind me of those people. You keep boasting about our ‘culture’ which is...
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उपभोक्तावाद की रचनात्मक अभिव्यक्ति अपने चरमोत्कर्ष पर है, रोज़ नए विज्ञापन हमारे मनोविज्ञान को प्रभावित करते हैं। हम घिरे हुए हैं चारों तरफ से उपभोक्तावाद के मकड़जाल से। पर मेरा प्रश्न इस उपभोक्तावाद से...
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As A Pet-Mom, Why I Feel We Should Adopt Pets And Not Shop For Them
As a child, I was never allowed to go near animals – particularly dogs, because my mother was petrified by them. She associated dogs with germs, unwanted hair and perilous infections, due to which dogs...
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Why Late Justice Leila Seth Stood Out As The Stereotype-Smashing Face Of The...
Leila Seth, the first female judge of the Delhi High Court and the first female chief justice of a high court in India, passed away of a cardiac arrest on Friday night at her residence in Noida,...
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मैं सोचता हूँ कि पिछले कई बरसों से हमने मोहब्बत करनी छोड़ी हुई है और शायद इसका कोई हिसाब नहीं। सोसाइटी तो ख़ैर मोहब्बत को एक ग़ैर ज़रूरी चीज़ समझती ही है, लेकिन हम देखते हैं कि हमारी नई कहानियां, ड्रामे,...
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The Reason Why Tribal Residents Of Darjeeling Want A Separate State
Darjeeling, the ‘Queen of Hills’, is a paradise on earth cuddled in the lap of the majestically gorgeous Mt Kanchenjunga. Green tea gardens stretch from the hills to the valleys, pine trees grow along...
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भूखा भारत देखना हो तो ‘उस्ताद होटल’आइयेगा
उस्ताद होटल एक ऐसी फिल्म है जो सही मायने में आपको भोजन की असली अहमियत बताती है। यह फिल्म 2012 में आयी एक मलयाली फिल्म है जिसके मुख्य किरदार दुल्कार सलमान व नित्या मेनन हैं। यह एक बेहतरीन फिल्म है जो...
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हे बिहारवासियों दोष स्वच्छता रैंकिंग को नहीं अपनी आदतों को दीजिए
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In Memory Of A Talented Friend Whose Mysterious Suicide Left Us Shocked
Today marks the day that a young wildlife researcher Prashanth Ettaboina would have turned 24 years old. When we last spoke a year ago, I couldn’t foresee that it would be the last time I would get to...
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Was December 16 Really The ‘Rarest Of The Rare’?
What the reactions to the verdict of the December 16 gang-rape actually show, is that as a society, we have failed yet again. We have demonstrated our shallow consciousness, our goldfish-like memories,...
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Open drains with excreta flowing through them. Filthy water. One toilet complex for over 10,000 residents. When the Swachh Bharat Mission promised to clean India, it surely wasn’t counting the Bheem...
View ArticleHow Some Families Do A ‘Samjhauta’ After Women Are Murdered For Dowry In...
This is an examination of the true meaning of value in the murky UP badlands that weighs its people in the ruthlessness of caste and gender politics. The badlands never ever fail to casually fling away...
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From Buses To Trains, These Photos Vividly Capture The Lives Of Women...
”I had a really scary encounter in Dombivli in an auto. The driver stopped to pick up his friend and then rode past my destination. This was at 10 pm. I felt so helpless,” says 20-year-old Saniya...
View ArticleHow To Handle Sadness Like A Sufi And Other Lessons Learned In An Auto
‘To travel is to live,’ Rumi said. Travelling is about meeting strangers and finding a connection with different people and places. Blood and flesh can be strangers, but the soul will always be a...
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Aruna Shanbaug To Jyoti Singh: This Black Ribbon Signifies How India Fails Women
Source: Instagram. I’m wearing a black ribbon today. A ribbon which signifies shame, and a lot more. And today, I’m not going to stop myself from expressing that “a lot more”. I feel ashamed when I...
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वाह, गोंडा की तुलना की दिल्ली-मुंबई से और बता दिया सबसे गंदा
केंद्र सरकार के स्वच्छ सर्वेक्षण-2017 में गोंडा को देश का सबसे गंदा शहर दिखाए जाने पर मेरा प्रश्न है कि, आप नगर निगम और नगर पालिका को एक ही पैमाने से कैसे माप सकते हैं ? आप जब सर्वे करने आए तो प्रदेश...
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