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While we can laugh our hearts out watching a Jimmy Kimmel show literally roasting President Trump, we can only dream of such a programme in India. Despite being one of the biggest democracies in the...
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How Can #HealthForAll Be A Reality For Millions Of Indians
In 2015, countries around the world, including India, adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim to achieve them by 2030. Goal 3 of these 17 #GlobalGoals is to ensure good health and...
View Articleबिना नींद के लगातार काम कर रही पुलिस अपराध कैसे रोकेगी?
एक बार सुबह नहाने के बाद पुलिस वालों के शरीर पर टंगी वर्दी रात के दो बजे के बाद ही बदन से उतर पाती है। यही नहीं, अगले दिन फिर समय से उन्हें कार्यालय में समय से उपस्थित होना होता है। ऐसी दबाव भरी...
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प्रधानमंत्री जी, शीरोज़ हैंगआउट के एसिड अटैक सर्वाइवर्स को आपकी ज़रूरत है
10 दिसम्बर 2014 को शीरोज़ हैंगआउट कैफे आगरा की शुरुआत हई, एसिड अटैक सर्वाइवर के सपनों की दुनिया मानो रंग लेने लगी, इस पहल की देश-विदेश मे भी चर्चा हो रही है और भारत सरकार के महिला कल्याण एवं बाल विकास...
View ArticleYour Personal Data Can Swing The 2019 Elections. Watch How In Under 3 Mins
As we come closer to celebrating the first anniversary of the historic Right to Privacy judgement on August 24 #PrivacyDay, the SaveOurPrivacy.in campaign is publishing a series of videos featuring...
View ArticleWhy Should Society Object If I Use My Mother’s Last Name Instead Of My Father’s?
Finally, Riya had come back from Bangalore to take a small break from her job. As usual, we met and started our chit-chat. I wanted to show off, so I opened my Facebook app and showed her my new name....
View ArticleThe Tales Of Trollum, A Dangerous Social Media Vigilante
If you’ve spent any time online or on social media, you’ve come across a social media vigilante. It’s that friend who complained about her Uber driver in a Facebook post, that uncle who sent you a...
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Most Of The Bidi Rollers In Bengal’s Murshidabad Are Child Labourers Trapped...
By Aatreyee Dhar: Bidi cigarette, which is the poor people’s tobacco, has been a major source of income for about 4 billion Indians rolling beedis for a living. Cheap labour combined with cheap tobacco...
View Article‘Itni Raat Ko, Kahaan?’: Why I Don’t Feel Safe In My Own Country Anymore
I sit myself down on the leather seats of a cab, it is past midnight. I am coming back from a date. I stoop towards the left, shifting all of my body weight on to one side, inclining my body to lay my...
View ArticleSC Has Asked The Parliament To Prioritise On A Law To Deal With Mob Lynching
The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said, “Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.” Our civilization, with each passing day, has seen a new low in humanity, as a...
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3 Years After His Death, Are We Any Closer To Realising Dr Kalam’s Vision For...
“We are all born with a divine fire within us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of it’s goodness.” – Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam It’s July 20, 2018, and we are...
View Articleखेलने की उम्र में तुम्हें किताब दे रहा हूं ताकि बड़े होकर तुम सांप्रदायिकता...
डियर बाबू, अभी जब कि तुम ठीक से खड़े भी नहीं हो पा रहे हो और शब्दों को बोलना सीख रहे हो मैं तुम्हारे लिए एक ऐसा किताब खरीद लाया हूं जिसे शायद तुम तब समझ पाओगे जब तुम 14-15 साल के हो जाओ। शायद जब तुम...
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Jharkhand’s Pathalgadi Movement Is A Necessary Dissent Of Indian Politics
As I returned to my hometown Ranchi, after a few months of ‘abroad education’, I was gripped by a romantic feeling trying hard to identify with Shah Rukh Khan’s “Swades”. This, however, was...
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9 Kinds Of People I Meet In Chennai’s Suburban Train Every Day
“Oh God! What the hell is this? Why did I ever shift my office? Wasn’t I more comfortable taking the one-hour long auto/bus route or my scooter and ride to office?” I groaned and got down from my cycle...
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The ‘Disease To Please’ That’s Killing Dreams
A million pep talks, biology lesson reminders, and self-reassurances later, she finally gathered enough courage to grab the packet of condoms off the rack. “To hell with the society,” she muttered for...
View Article“धर्म के नाम पर मारने वाली भीड़ का बहिष्कार ज़रूरी है”
आज के परिदृश्य में राहत इंदौरी जी की ये पंक्तियां बिलकुल सटीक बैठती हैं- अगर खिलाफ हैं होने दो जान थोड़ी है ये सब धुआं है कोई आसमान थोड़ी है लगेगी आग तो आएंगे घर कई ज़द में यहां पे सिर्फ हमारा मकान...
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Were Ordinary Citizens From Rural Areas Behind The Birth Of Indian Democracy?
One often-repeated remark about India is that it is a most unlikely setting for a thriving democracy. How did a poor country with incredible diversity and a population with low levels of education...
View ArticleBefore The Govt. Makes Generic Drugs Mandatory, It Needs To Address These Issues
Generic drugs have been in the limelight after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the government will make it compulsory for doctors to prescribe generic drugs. The present BJP-led government...
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This Is Why We Need To Dream Big For Our Daughters
I am a 26-year-old single, low maintenance kind of Indian girl, who studied hard, worked hard without socialising much, avoided conflicts all her life and somehow landed in Europe. For the past few...
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Do We Really Need To Sing The National Anthem At A Movie Hall?
Recently, there was an unusually long hearing on an application to recall the Supreme Court’s November 2016 order forcing movie-goers to stand up for the National Anthem before the start of every film....
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