Why The Blue Whale Challenge Has Claimed So Many Lives When It’s So Obviously...
The mind works in mysterious ways and there is something destructive about it. There is a new phenomenon that takes mind games to a whole new level, one which goes beyond the fiction in movies and...
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As An Upper-Caste Man, Not Talking About Discrimination Is My Privilege
When I was in school, someone asked me what my caste was. I had no understanding of what caste meant. So, I went to my dad and asked him, “What is my caste?” The answer was that even he didn’t know and...
View ArticleSharing Your Wardrobe With Your Colleagues Can Help Save The Planet!
By Bharati Chaturvedi: I am what stores like to call petite. I’ve always been, even when I was too young to be called petite. This means that I’ve often worn hand-me-downs. Usually, that’s the fate of...
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Drugs And Prostitution Are Ruining Lives Of Kids Outside This Kolkata Railway...
Railway stations in India are one of the most important sites of transport – and Sealdah station is one of the busiest. Thousands of people pass by this station every day, as hundreds of local and...
View ArticleNothing is certain in life apart from Death, and apparently TDS
One of the greatest feelings in the world is the message that tells you your salary for the month has been deposited in your bank account. But accompanying it usually, comes the slight irritation of...
View Articleहिन्दू बनाम मुस्लिम क्यों बन जाता है यूनिफॉर्म सिविल कोड?
भारत देश में अब तक किसी कानून को पारित करने में इतना विवाद नहीं हुआ जितना समान नागरिक संहिता पर हुआ जिसने हिन्दू व मुस्लिम धार्मिक संप्रदाय को सदैव आमने – सामने लाकर खड़ा किया है। समान नागरिक संहिता का...
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How Men Like Me Benefit From The Unpaid Labour Of Women In Our Lives
Men sit, laugh, talk and do what they please. Women make tea, cook food, serve dinner and clean up. This scene repeats itself multiple times, wherever I am. The care is provided by women of the family....
View ArticleForced Motherhood: The Abortion Law In India
We live in an era when everybody is talking about women’s rights, but the basic right of bodily autonomy, especially with respect to reproductive rights, is subject to huge contradictions. Access to...
View Article10 साल की बच्ची के मां बनने में सिर्फ कानून नहीं समाज भी दोषी है
सआदत हसन मंटो की कहानियों पर अक्सर अश्लीलता का आरोप लगाया जाता था। जवाब में वे कहते थे “अगर आपको मेरी कहानियां अश्लील या गंदी लगती हैं तो जिस समाज में आप रह रहे हैं, वह अश्लील और गंदा है। मेरी कहानियां...
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I Tried To Do Something Nice For Street Children But Didn’t Realise Its...
Amidst the hustle of cities and caught in the web of individual commitments, our encounters with those on the streets are reduced to inconsiderate – and sometimes, selective – acts of kindness. These...
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IRCTC To Deliver Tatkal Tickets At Home, Accept Cash On Delivery
We all love travelling. Hence, it is important that we travel with comfort. My faith in the Indian Railways had been deteriorating but the government has come up with a new scheme where you can book...
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Why ‘Modesty’ Is A Terrible Measure For Laws Against Molestation
The ubiquity of sexual abuse in the modern society is well felt. There have been several reports coming out over the past few months in reference to sexual abuse in colleges, in workplaces and so on....
View ArticleHow To Build A Capital: What Amaravati Can Learn From Brasilia’s Successes...
Andhra Pradesh’s new capital is a bold dream riddled with uncertainties. Projections of how many people it will be home to a range of 3.5 million to 11 million and recent dithering by the central...
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How Indore Police Abducted Me When I Went To Meet Medha Patkar
I, along with four others, reached Bombay Hospital, Indore on August 8 to meet Medha Patkar who was forcefully hospitalised on the 12th day of her indefinite fast by the Madhya Pradesh police. Medha...
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बिहार में बाढ़ या गोरखपुर में मरते बच्चे, बस सरकार पर दोष डालना काफी नहीं है
“एक गुड़िया की कई कठपुतलियों में जान है, आज शायर यह तमाशा देख कर हैरान है।” अभी मेरी स्थिति दुष्यंत कुमार की इन पंक्तियों जैसी ही है, पिछले कुछ समय से मैं भी बहुत हैरान हूं। देश की मौजूदा राजनीति, उस...
View ArticleThis Video Of A Child Being Slapped While Studying Shows The Pressure Indian...
The fact that the pain and anger of the child is ignored and ones own ego to make the child learn is so massive that compassion has totally gone out of the window. This is shocking and saddening to...
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72 And Counting: What The Gorakhpur Tragedy Reveals About The State Of Govt...
We were stunned on hearing the news of the death of children in a government hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. We had too many people to blame – especially since it was the constituency of the...
View ArticleThe Secret Your Grandparents May Be Hiding Because They’re Scared You’ll Joke...
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View ArticleHow ‘Graceful’ Would It Be To Die Of Smoking? Let This Video Show You
Globally, 7 million people die due to smoking every year. But, the global profit in the tobacco trade is $35 billion. The system claims that it wants to keep citizens healthy and wants them to stay...
View ArticleTripura CM’s Banned Speech Proves How Only One Person Can Express His “Mann...
This Independence Day, the Modi government made it clear yet again, that in our country, no one except one person has the independence of speaking their ‘Mann ki Baat’. Not even the democratically...
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