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Why The Ban On Women In Sabarimala Is ‘Neither Historical Nor Entirely Based...
By Elsa Oommen: “For the last 20 years woman irrespective of their age were allowed to visit the temple when it opens for monthly poojas. They were not permitted to enter the temple during Mandalam,...
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Forget The Beaten Path, The Answer To India’s Education Crisis Lies In An All...
By Adithya Narayan: While previous generations of young adults had to pick between a financially viable job and a career in the social sector, today there are multiple opportunities for social change...
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Her Daughter Was Gang Raped Because The Lack Of A Toilet At Home Forced Her...
By Manjari Singh: Representation only. Source: REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee Usha Devi (name changed) had neither seen the ad campaign where Bollywood actor Vidya Balan urges villagers to build toilets...
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Does The Popularity Of Live-In Relationships Mean Our Idea Of ‘Commitment’...
By Samparna Tripathy: Live-in relationships, a popular name for cohabitation, is just another adaptation to the contemporary times. The transformation of a woman’s role from just a caregiving one as a...
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Did Rohith Vemula Pay The Price For Holding On To His Dreams?
By Saurabh Nath Singh: What could possibly drive a research scholar pursuing the highest academic qualification in an esteemed institution to take the desperate step of ending his life? Surely, it...
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What Made A Young Man Give Up The Faith He Held So Dear?
By Sahitya Poonacha: Source: Wikipedia Atheism for its being an irreligious and God-refusing system of belief, more appropriately disbelief, has garnered much trepidation and also judgement from the...
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Racial And Caste Oppression Have Many Similarities
By Rajesh Sampath, Brandeis University: Systems of oppression have much in common. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, CC BY Comparisons can be risky, but not impossible. Consider for a moment...
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What Caste Means To Me As A Muslim In India
By Mosarrap Hossain Khan: For representation only. Source: REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee In West Bengal, there was a disjunction between the social and the political. Growing up Muslim in West Bengal...
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Rohith Vemula’s Death Proves There Is No Escape From ‘Caste Status’ In India
By Jigna Kotecha: Accept it or not, privilege is real. Very often privilege depends on inequality of numbers – the majority subjugates the minority. And someone has to become a minority, because they...
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As Delhi’s Winter Gets Harsher, This Is How Slum Dwellers Are Forced To...
By Hasan Akram: For representation. Source: Thomas Galvez Food, clothing and shelter are the three basic needs of life. One cold night, this winter, I got a chance to meet people who are deprived of...
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From Egypt: Absurd Rape And Abortion Laws And How Women Are Fighting Against...
By Sarah Marzouk for Cake: Last October, a young woman was sexually assaulted and slapped twice in one of Cairo’s malls. Instead of bringing the perpetrator to justice, the young woman found herself...
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I Took Action Against Domestic Violence In My Neighbourhood, What Followed...
By Mudita Sonar: For representation only. Source: Reuters During my multiple debates on gender and feminism, I have often heard men use the signature line, “I don’t understand why women keep staying in...
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As A Woman Living In A City, How Safe Are We In These ‘Masculinised Public...
By Minakshi Bujarbaruah: Guwahati. Photo by Minakshi Bujarbaruah “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass”– Maya Angelou....
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Goa Govt. Imposing A Dress Code At A Carnival Is Even More Ridiculous Than It...
By Rohini Banerjee: Source: Madan Kumaraswamy/Flickr Just when you thought that the moral policing in the country couldn’t get worse, things reached an all new low when the Goa government declared on...
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By YKA Staff: “An attempt is being made to separate the suicide note from the ‘life’ of Rohith.” – P. Sainath As protests against what happened with scholar Rohith Vemula continue at the University of...
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Treating The Rohith Vemula Case As A ‘Dalit Vs Non-Dalit’ Issue Misses The...
By Nijam Gara: Rohith Vemula! Now a name as powerful and meaningful to Ambedkarite students in the country as Che Guevara is to revolutionaries. The young man’s spellbinding last letter addressing the...
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Why The Naming Of Roads And Cities Needs To Move Beyond Politics And Favouritism
By Kshitij Dhyani: As the New Year progresses, it’s time to reflect on the national events of the past year; not only to think of things which could have been better or worse and cry over spilled milk...
View ArticleHow 10 Dalit Sanitation Workers Paid The Price For Fighting Caste...
By Pinjra Tod: 10 Dalit safai karamcharis (8 women and 2 men) of Undergraduate Hostel for Girls (UGHG) in the Dhaka complex of University of Delhi have been on an indefinite sit-in dharna outside the...
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As A Doctor In India, I Don’t Just Have To Save My Patient’s Life, I Have To...
By Pillai Vishnu: Source: Flickr I write this post deeply pained, being a post-graduate student struggling to get into surgery. When I hear the news about a surgical resident being beaten up till his...
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Not Just Casteism, It Was Political Interference In University Affairs That...
By Anwarul Hoda: “I would not be around when you read this letter. Don’t get angry on me. I know some of you truly cared for me, loved me and treated me very well. I have no complaints on anyone. It...
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