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तो बस यादों में ही रह जाएगी कोलकाता की पीली टैक्सी
पश्चिम बंगाल की राजधानी कोलकाता में यदि आप देश के किसी भी हिस्से से प्रवेश कर रहे होते हैं तो कुछ ऐसी चीज़ें हैं, जिन्हें देखकर बड़ी आसानी से अनुमान लगाया जा सकता है कि सिटी ऑफ ज्वॉय में आपका आगमन हो...
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85 Years After The Poona Pact, Dalits Are As Alienated As They Were In 1932
September 24, 2017 marked 85 years since the historic Poona Pact was signed in 1932. It was signed between the two champions of the rights of the erstwhile ‘Depressed Classes’ (now Scheduled Castes and...
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Why I Have 2,000 Friends On Facebook But Spend Most Of My Evenings Alone
I dream of an age without the internet. When hangouts with friends were not confined to Google, shopping was a real-time experience that required us to take a day off from work and spend quality time...
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Meet Tilottama, Who Pulled Off A Real Life ‘Toilet – Ek Prem Katha’ In Odisha
Tilottama, a young bride in Deogarh, Odisha, initiated the construction of toilets in the village where she moved after marriage. Her persistence has finally paid off: her village is now open...
View ArticleHow The Indian Health Care Sector Can Be Made More Tech-Savvy
The healthcare sector in India is growing at a tremendous pace, with the industry poised to touch $280 billion by the end of 2020. Health care is one of India’s largest sectors and has contributed to...
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How I Had To Unlearn Everything About Sex And My Body To Really Understand It
By Ritika Ghosh: Till 2016, the only conversations I had around gender and sexuality were influenced by my course in English literature. The conversations we had in college were usually completely...
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If You’re A Girl Who Speaks Her Mind, You’re Trouble Just Like Me
It was a Saturday afternoon. Dressed in my shorts and a royal blue t-shirt, I ran down the stairs. My daily evening ritual would begin around 5 pm when my friends from the colony would ring my door...
View ArticleWhatsApp Uncle Never Lies
If I had a rupee every time someone – typically middle-aged or older – said that social media was ruining the youth of the country, I would be rich enough to pay off Vijay Mallya’s loans. Of course,...
View ArticleWe Thought We Were Perfect For Each Other, But Society Didn’t
Co-author: Prabhleen Kaur The journey of two millennials who have gone through their share of infatuation, friendship, dating and finally marriage will never be complete until they face the dilemma of...
View Article‘My Child Can’t Safely Roam In The City’
“Do you take children to outings or picnics in the city?” I was interviewing the community health worker in Mumbai who plays the role of a guardian of children during the daytime. The worker...
View ArticleMove Over Chetan Bhagat, Our ‘Two States’ Is Much Better Than Yours
I am a Punjabi woman married to a Telugu man. (Do I hear you say, “So what, intercaste marriages are so common!”) Well, mine was an arranged marriage. (Your interest has perked up now, hasn’t it? ) In...
View ArticleWhat We, And The Government Need To Do For Our Domestic Workers
Kanta behen and Ramu kaka – the two famous characters of the entertainment industry have always shown the fun side and amiable nature of relationships with domestic workers.Yet ironically the stark...
View ArticleWhy The Govt. Needs To Obsess About Elphinstone Bridge, Not The Bullet Train
On the morning of September 29, 2017, Mumbai fell victim to yet another infrastructural tragedy. At around 10:30 am, a stampede broke out on the foot-over bridge connecting the Elphinstone Road and...
View ArticleThere Is Only One Way Indian Campuses Know To Protect Female Student – Cages
We must find ourselves to be greatly privileged to have taken birth in a nation-state which is not ruled by any other state. And at the same time, to be a part of the society which is a mix of those...
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पहली बार 2016 मे जब मैंने “टॉयलेट एक प्रेमकथा” का पोस्टर देखा तो लगा कि ये फिल्म लव स्टोरी, प्यार, इश्क, मोहब्बत पर आधारित है। ऐसा लगा शायद टायलेट में ही नायक-नायिका का प्रेम सफाया होगा। लेकिन ट्रेलर...
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Yesterday, I read in papers, saw in the news and read on social media about the stampede at the Elphinstone Road Station, a station I have boarded and deboarded the train from many times in last four...
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Mana, The Story Of India’s Last Village
September 27, 2017 was World Tourism Day. To commemorate the occasion, I am bringing to you a special story of the ‘last village standing’ in Uttarakhand. While tensions between two highly-demographic...
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The Genius Way 2 Teens Are Bringing Clean Water To Delhi’s Slums
After a visit to the area where their domestic worker lives, the fact that the scarcity of clean and safe drinking water was the problem was clear in their mind. A group of two teen-aged girls, whose...
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ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट: झारखण्ड के गोड्डा जिले से पलायन रोकने में असफल है मनरेगा
आज़ाद भारत के इतिहास में मनरेगा सबसे बड़ी और क्रांतिकारी योजना बताई जाती है। इस योजना के तहत प्रत्येक परिवार को एक वित्तीय वर्ष में कम से कम 100 दिनों का रोज़गार दिए जाने की गारंटी है। साल 2005 में...
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