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A 15-Year Old Autistic Girl Was Working With A Welding Machine To Make Metal...
By Janhavi: I was some 6 years old when my family shifted to a new apartment. The idea of having neighbours was totally new to me and I loved it instantly. The first house I remember visiting was on...
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One Woman Is Helping Transform Asia’s Biggest Slum Into A Global Online...
By Grace Baey: Editor's note: Dharavi, isn't just Asia's largest slum, it is its own mini-industry comprising of many artisans and craftsmen, who make some of the finest products in the country. So...
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A Student Film On Beef Eating Gets Shut Down: Welcome To ‘Nazi Germany’...
By Shambhavi Saxena: In 1930, the Berlin premier of an American film, All Quiet on the Western Front, was disrupted by smoke bombs and sneezing powder and members of the audience were beaten up....
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हमारा समाज आज दो वर्गों में बंट चुका है- एक जो अंग्रेजी में सोचता, बोलता है,...
अक्षय दुबे 'साथी': हर एक मनुष्य के पास अपनी एक भाषा होती है, मां के दूध के आस्वादन के साथ ही हमारे कान में भाषा की मिश्री भी घुलती है, तब हम कुछ बोलने में समर्थ हो पाते हैं। शायद इसीलिए उस भाषा को हम...
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The Trauma Of 1984 Didn’t Die With The Victims, It Continues To Live Through...
By Ravleen Kaur: Mounting protests in Punjab, unknown number of arrests, the disruption of daily life, and calls against a media "blackout", has been highlighted the world over in the last few weeks....
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Hindus Least Likely To Be Jailed; Sikhs, Christians Most Likely
By Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend: They make up no more than 4% of India’s 1.2 billion people but Sikhs and Christians are more likely to be undertrials, detenues and convicts than Hindus and...
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5 Ways To Maintain A Work-Life Balance Because All Work And No Play Makes You...
By Bhavna Sultana: Get up! Heavy traffic Work Heavy traffic Sleep Repeat Most of us are victims of this infinite loop. Long commutes, extensive working hours, traffic jams; they all take a heavy toll...
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Would A Ban On Commercial Surrogacy Really Protect Women Or Take Away Their...
By Tabu Agarwal: At a time when banning is considered the only solution to a problem, the Modi Government has done it yet again. The Supreme Court, with support from the ruling government is all set...
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As An 18 Year Old In U.P Fights To Stay Alive, Local Authorities Claim She...
By Khabar Lahariya: Editor’s Note: As part of Youth Ki Awaaz and Khabar Lahariya's collaboration, the following is the story of Leela, an 18-year-old from Banda. Having suffered a tragic accident,...
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Bringing Up The Past Is Important For The Sake Of Context: Anupam Kher...
This piece was first published in Newslaundry.com. Dear Abhinandan, Thank you for your letter. It was compassionate and respectful and I believe it warrants a response. I don’t respond to every piece...
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‘I Will Use The Word ‘Fat’ Without Feeling Sorry, But Will Society Let Me?’
By Kirat Sodhi: I am not thin, never was and perhaps never will be. Do I care? Yes. Do I want to care? No. It's unfair that I have to hear people pass comments, sometimes sneakily, sometimes openly,...
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Starting A Dialogue On Gender And Sexuality Is No Joke! Comedian Vasu...
By Shambhavi Saxena for Youth Ki Awaaz: Vasu Primlani is not your average comic. She has a routine that melds together an unlikely combination of jokes about gender, the environment and queerness....
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As I See It, The Uniform Civil Code Does Not Impose The Law Of Majorities On...
By Lekha Vijaya: The question of rolling out a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India has been haunting us ever since independence. We have been sitting on Article 44, a directive principle of state policy...
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15 Years And Still Fighting: Why We Can’t Let Irom Sharmila’s Story Fade Away
By Ravi Nitesh: At present when we are all busy in our daily routine and living our lives normally, there are so many 'abnormal' things going on around us. We point out those in the 'news'. One such...
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India Is Attacking Its Minorities In Every Way Possible, And It Could Destroy Us
By Majid Alam: The people of India have learned through years of co-existence with each other that despite differences in mindset, faith, thought and social strata - on several occasions we have taken...
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‘I May Be Female, Asian, Homosexual, But I’m Also Things Stereotypes Can’t...
By Garima Aggarwal: At the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where I currently study, there was a talk recently by Na'ilah Nasir on Race, Identity, and Learning. If any of the readers reading my...
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Out Of Fear Of The Locality, We Didn’t Dare Bring Meat To The Flat: My 2...
By Rupsa Chakraborty: I landed in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state - Gujarat last year in the middle of the scorching heat of March. I was beaming with excitement as the city had transformed into...
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This Diwali, Light The Way For Friendship And Love, Rather Than Smoke, Noise...
By Vaishali: According to Wikipedia, India celebrates 151 festivals in a year. That's a huge number. This means that for almost half of the year we are celebrating something. And I believe we...
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‘I Used To Believe That The Worst Thing You Could Be Was Homosexual’
By Vishesh Jain: I am writing this today neither to condemn nor support you in your struggles. I write today to talk about a universal cause that both you and I are equally part of. My story started...
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Why Would You Want To Leave A Stable Job To Write Full Time?
By Bhavna Sultana: Should I really take up writing as a full-time career? The question lingers in my mind every now and then, making me nervous. In doing the research on taking up writing as a career...
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