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In Our Zeal To ‘Be Green’, We Need To Think Twice About The Kind Of Trees We...
By Bharati Chaturvedi: If I told you that some trees are more suitable to plant in your city, village or locality, you’d probably already know that. It’s intuitive, as the work of artist Joanna...
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Dear Indian women, Let me begin by stating the reason why I am instigated to write this letter. Honestly, it was not a single event but a series of them. I remember a dull Indian wedding where my...
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We are all born as equal human beings irrespective of our caste, creed, gender, and status. It is only once we start growing up that the society starts creating an environment for us with their own...
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Online dating has finally come out of the closet and into our phone screens, and developers are raking in the moolah. Since 2013, when Tinder first made its appearance on Indian phone screens, India...
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‘The More You Silence Child Sexual Abuse, The More It’ll Come Knocking At...
PM Modi visited London last week. While the majority of the Indian diaspora was busy dancing and cheering, there were few speaking up against the rampant child sexual abuse in India. I interviewed one...
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Scenes From Modi’s London Visit Show Many UK Indians Don’t Care About Rapes...
April was a big month for Indians. PM Modi visited London, UK. Incidentally, during the same time, India was witnessing the aftermath of a communally-motivated gang rape and murder of an 8-year-old...
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As I write this, I am three quarters done with ‘Gujarat Files’, written by firebrand journalist Rana Ayyub. I have been born and brought up in Rajkot, Gujarat, where parts of the revealing and...
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How I Became A Shashi Tharoor Fan Overnight
To be honest, before April 12, 2018, all I knew or bothered to know about Shashi Tharoor was that he’s a politician whose English diction is said to be better than that of the British themselves, and...
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Recently, while coming back from college, I saw a couple of kids gathered around a cow beside the road and trying to do something very intently. I suddenly got curious, so I stopped there, parked my...
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Dear Pen Pal, separated by British-made imaginary lines, How are you? Are you surprised after finding out the origin of this letter? They must have told you all sorts of unfavourable things about me...
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How 12 Young Graduates Are Helping Bihar’s Poor Villagers Start Their Own...
This is the story of how a few young graduates, who aspire to be entrepreneurs in the future, are trying to bring a change in the perceptions among the youth of the rural villages of Bihar. When it...
View ArticleWhy Outrage Over ‘Adopt A Heritage’ Is Misplaced
On April 28, it was reported that Dalmia Bharat Ltd signed a MoU with Ministry of Tourism and ASI, to adopt Delhi’s iconic Red Fort and Andhra Pradesh’s Gandikota Fort. This has been done under the...
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ज़्यादातर धर्मों की यह मान्यता है कि आत्मा अनश्वर है और वह नश्वर शरीर के माध्यम से अपनी उपस्थिति दर्ज कराए रहती है। इसी मान्यता के कारण पुनर्जन्म की अवधारणा अस्तित्व में आयी। पुनर्जन्म कर्मों के सिंचित...
View ArticleHow The Internet Of Things Will Change Online Dating
Technology has already transformed virtually everything in the planet and online dating hasn’t been left behind. We have seen the emergence of things like location-based dating apps, aided by the...
View ArticleWatch: The Invisible And Dispensable Lives Behind The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Sanitation workers often resort to consuming alcohol to become numb to the stench of drains. What do they get in return? Delayed wages and stigma. Reena Ramteke reports on the scenes behind Swachh...
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How Do We Find Joy In The Face Of Life’s Inevitable suffering? This Book Has...
“The book of Joy” has given me a completely new meaning and perspective to the existing understanding I thought I had about happiness, joy, positivity and a life devoid of suffering even with its...
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I’m sure we all have heard this phrase at least once in our lives (especially if you are 90’s kid) and we do relate to this in our daily lives. I want to discuss this in terms of a Hindi serial...
View ArticleLaws Against Sexual Harassment At Workplaces Do Exist. Women Need To Be Aware...
“I want to be a journalist,” 15-year-old Anita told her father enthusiastically. He glared at her through his glasses. “You will think of no such thing,” he snapped. “But I want to go on TV and cover...
View ArticleWatch How Women Health Workers Are Changing The Face Of India’s Immunization...
India’s women frontline health workers are responsible for bringing medical care to people living in the country’s farthest reaches and saving hundreds of lives every day. Yet, these Auxiliary Nurse...
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