As A Bachelor In Gurgaon’s Essel Towers, This Is The Disgusting Moral...
“You are no one, we live here, we have paid for these, speak to us via your landlords.” “Youngsters create a ruckus in the society.” “You tell me your landlord’s name, I will tell him you support...
View Articleहमारी ब्रा स्ट्रैप से आपकी संस्कृति की सांस क्यों फूलने लगती है?
जाने कितने ही लोगों ने की बातें वो बातें जो ज़रूरी है, महत्वपूर्ण है और साथ ही साथ सतही भी है। जाने कितने ही लोगों ने लिखा बेबाक होकर बिलकुल खुल कर पर हुआ कुछ भी नही समाज वहीं है उसकी सोच वहीं है। जहाँ...
View ArticleWhat’s Making Sarahah Go Viral?
For the past week, our social media feeds have been flooded with Sarahah feedback posts. Some of the interesting ones that I read about others were- “I love you. I could never say it.”, “You know, my...
View ArticleIndia Is The World’s Dumping Yard For E- Waste, And Our Future Is At Stake
India is becoming one of the biggest dumping yards of electrical and electronic appliances. The government has implemented the E-Waste (Handling) Rules, 2016 in effect from March 2016. The rules and...
View Articleकह रही हैं लड़कियां, दिन हो या रात पुरुषों की बपौती नहीं सड़क
तेरे माथे पर ये आंचल बहुत ही खूब है लेकिन, तू इस आँचल को ही परचम बना लेती हो अच्छा था असरार-उल-हक़ मजाज़ महिलाओं के खिलाफ होने वाले अत्याचारों के लिए जब सरकार, महिलाओं को ही दोषी बता रही है, उनके...
View ArticleThis International Youth Day, We Need To Pledge Our Utmost To The World’s Youth
Currently, there around about 1.8 billion young women and men — between the ages of 10 and 24 — in the world, accounting for nearly 19.6% of the global population. Agreed, not all of them can (or...
View ArticleIf You Fail This Quiz, India Is Independent But You Aren’t
Seventy years ago, India secured independence from the British. Millions of people got freedoms they didn’t enjoy before. Want to know whether you are free in this modern day India? Take this quiz to...
View Article15 अगस्त को बचपन में मकसद डेफिनिट होता था, दिनभर पतंग उड़ाना
आज ऑफिस से वापस घर आते वक्त यूं ही आसमान पर नज़र गई तो आसमान कुछ छितरे सफ़ेद बादलों के साथ बचपन की उस बात की पुष्टि करता दिखा जब माँ ने बताया था कि “15 अगस्त और जन्माष्टमी पर बारिश ज़रूर होती है।” तभी...
View Article10 Events Since Independence That Changed India Forever
It’s been 70 years since India secured independence from the British, yet seven decades on, the country continues to be afflicted with poverty, corruption, caste discrimination, communalism among other...
View Article#100साल50गांधी: मिलिए झारखंड की आयरन लेडी दयामनी बारला से
एडिटर्स नोट- चंपारण सत्याग्रह के शताब्दी वर्ष के मौके पर YKA आपको मिलवा रहा है हमारे-आपके बीच के उन लोगों से जो अपने स्तर पर ला रहे हैं बदलाव। #100साल50गांधी के नाम से चल रहे इस कैंपेन के तहत अगर आपके...
View ArticleAn Indian’s Open Letter To A Pakistani: ‘We Need To Talk Bhai’
Hi, Hope you are doing great. As you just celebrated your 71st Independence Day, I want to address a lot of thoughts which have been running in my mind. A lot of unanswered questions which have kept me...
View ArticleA Pakistani’s Open Letter To Indians: ‘I Think We Can Do Without War’
By Zeeba T Hashmi: Dear friends across the nation, We in Pakistan celebrated Pakistan Day yesterday. You are also celebrating it today, as we have both been doing for the past 70 years on our...
View ArticleWhat Independence Really Means For An Average Indian Woman
When a friend said, “It must feel like a close-knit family in Cambridge since you all seem to come from the same schools, I experience the same with my community,” it made me pause and think. There was...
View ArticleIndependence Day For A Pakistani Sindhi
As India celebrates its 70th year as an independent nation state, there is another history that it carries along. A history that reels in blood and sacrifice and dividing lines. This month also marks...
View ArticleVote Banks, Bigotry, Fake News: Indian Democracy Is Under Threat
The times that we live in are difficult, but beautiful nonetheless. There are disruptions happening in every field. Technology is playing the major role of being an agent of disruption. We, the youth...
View ArticleAre We Worth The Freedom We’ve Won?
Bhavya traversed down the memory lane as classic patriotic numbers played out one after the other in her locality. The reminiscences of her humming these songs along with her friends in their school...
View Article70 Years Later, It’s Time To Start Building The India Our Founding Fathers...
India – or Bharat – turns 70 today. We are a nation that was carved out not based on a common ethnicity or language but based on our common suffering and struggle. We are a nation of diverse...
View ArticleFor Children Growing Up In Orphanages, Turning 18 Means Abandonment Again
I am Aditya Vasanti and I was brought up in SOS Children’s Village, Pune. I lost my parents at the age of four years – and I still don’t know who I am. Although I know that I am someone’s child, I...
View ArticleHow The Right Kind Of Support Helped Me Deal With An Abusive Cab Driver
With Independence Day celebrations going on all over the country, we are reading a lot of positive reports published by the government and the media. India has indeed come a long way since 1947. From...
View ArticleHow I Learnt Feminism From My Widowed Mother
I have often been asked where I get my feminism from. While introspecting on this question, I realised that I learnt my feminism not from the wonderful feminist texts I read in college but from my...
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