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9 Women From The North East Share Why They Want To Stay In Hyderabad
Away from home, in an unfamiliar space, north-eastern women in Hyderabad talk about the city and how they work their way through stereotypes. “It was 2012 when I landed in Hyderabad for the first time;...
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फ्रांस के राजा, इंग्लैंड की रानी और महात्मा गांधी सबका टॉयलेट है यहां
11 जून को जारी ‘टॉयलेट: एक प्रेम कथा’ फिल्म के ट्रेलर को खूब सराहना मिल रही है। ट्रेलर रिलीज़ के बाद से फेसबुक पर अब तक 11 मिलियन लोग इसे देख चुके हैं। यूट्यूब पर इसे अब तक 12 मिलियन लोगों ने देखा है।...
View ArticleAn India Less Wished For…
The results for class 12 are out today and my neighbour’s son has passed with flying colours. He is the topper from his batch. Excited, I enquire about his career dreams, and with a 56-inch chhati...
View ArticleWe Need To Talk About This Issue That Dia Mirza And MP Kalikesh Deo Are...
Recently, I found out that the cup of chai that I drink every morning could be a product of slave-like labour. Worse still, slave-like labour of little children, thousands of whom, for instance, are...
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Love In The Time Of Tinder
I love silently watching my parents when they are together. My mother does her chores in the kitchen and my father stands there, cracking jokes about her weight or pulling her cheeks. He often succeeds...
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21.1% Girls Married Before They’re 18: How India Is Unsafe For Children
14-year-old Kamal still remembers the time he worked 24-hour shifts in a roadside restaurant. Now back in school, and excelling as an athlete, he even managed to win a trophy for his district in a 400...
View ArticleIndia’s ‘Built Environment’ Is A Goldmine Of Possibilities We Need To Explore
Rapid population increase, global warming, depleting resources, and an unprecedented migration rate are some critical realities that countries world over are facing today. Closer home, India faces...
View ArticleWhy India Needs To Be Wary Of Its New-Found Love For Nationalism
In 2015, the whole country was introduced to the latest fashion of our age. In the month of September that year, an insignificant village of Bisara near Dadri in Uttar Pradesh made headlines when a...
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मरना तो सभी को है एक दिन, क्या हुआ अगर कुछ किसान मर गए!
भारत जिसकी पहचान आज सिर्फ और सिर्फ शहरों तक ही सीमित रह गई है, उस भारत का शहरी नागरिक पूछ रहा है कि एक दिन तो सबको मर ही जाना है, तो मरते किसान पर इतना हल्ला क्यों है? शहर के ये नागरिक जो अक्सर फेसबुक...
View Articleइस पिता ने अपनी बेटियों को सिखाया पीरियड्स पर खुलकर बात करना
अक्सर हमारे घरों में सिखाया जाता है कि पीरियड्स की बातें पापा के सामने नहीं करना। पापा के साथ बैठे होने पर सेनेटरी नैपकिन का विज्ञापन आते ही हम असहज महसूस करने लगते हैं। घर में किसी भी पुरुष के सामने...
View ArticleIndia Needs To Do More For Its Acid Attacks Victims, Monetary Compensation...
“You didn’t have love in your heart, you had acid in it.” —Laxmi Agarwal (Acid Attack Survivor) Having your face disfigured and burned in a matter of seconds, as a consequence of refusing to go out on...
View ArticleLiving With Trauma: The Invisible Horrors Of War Reporting
Journalism can be a dangerous profession. There have been studies, by organisations such as Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which show the number of journalists that have died since the year...
View Articleसमझिये! देश में सब कुछ ठीक नहीं है
जब लोकतंत्र की उम्मीदें उदासीनता में तब्दील हो जाए। देश के लोगों की ख़ुशी गरीबी में डूब जाए। वैचारिक असहमति हिंसक विरोध के मार्फ़त जताई जाए। संस्थानिक स्वायत्तता सत्ता के आगे नतमस्तक हो जाए। आयोग के...
View ArticleFarmer Suicide Rates Are Rising. Can India End Its Agrarian Crisis?
We all grew up reading the great writer Munshi Premchand’s stories in our childhood. Most of his stories were based on the suffering of the peasants and farmers during the British rule. Be it his...
View ArticleNo Country For Old People: Why Is Young India Abandoning The Elderly?
Have you noticed the growth of sky-rocketing walls, embroidered with pointed glass sheets in your neighborhood? Mine is a great reflection of that. Giant barricades are built to limit the trajectory of...
View Article30 And Single: ‘I’d Rather Reach For My Dreams Than Be Respectably Married Off’
We live in a society where the moment a girl turns 25 and remains unmarried, family and friends look down upon her suspiciously. The same society that never wanted her to have a boyfriend previously,...
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Why Do Kashmiris Rush To Encounter Sites And Help Militants?
It’s been a decade now. His memories may have significantly faded and withered, and the potency to hark back to the past and reproduce all the events has touched a symbolic low. However, my uncle’s...
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The Beef Ban Isn’t The First Time That Kerala Has Risen Against The State
The year is 1893, the location, the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore. Travancore is to witness one of the most defining moments in its long history. Activities go on as normal in the marketplace at...
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अंदरूनी कलह से कराह रहा देश, फिर भी चिंता पाकिस्तान की
दिल्ली से हज़ारों किलोमीटर दूर दार्जलिंग में आन-बान-शान का प्रतीक भारतीय ध्वज तिरंगा लेकर सड़कों पर निकले लोग कोई क्रिकेट मैच के बड़े प्रशंसक नहीं हैं, बल्कि उन्हें अपने लिए अलग राज्य गोरखालैंड चाहिए।...
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My Husband’s Moving Faith As A Muslim Taught Me The True Meaning Of Ramadan
As a kid, all Eid meant to me was a lot of non-vegetarian food at Junaid uncle’s house. He was a dear friend to my father, residing in a flat right above ours. Like a tradition, we used to go their...
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