Watch The Story Of Rupesh Who Quit His Corporate Job To Become A Police...
By Siddharth Sathyajit: I first bumped into Rupesh, when I was caught riding a bike without a license and taken to the police station. While I was expecting to be screamed at by angry policemen, who...
View ArticleA Beautiful And Comfortable Railways Would Be Great, But What About Safety?
By Gaurav Singhal: In the last week of January 2016, two tragic losses of life, one at the railway station of Dadar and the other at Borivali in Mumbai, made the headlines. Both incidents were recorded...
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Why It Is Much Better To Watch Doordarshan Than The Predictable ‘Saas-Bahu’...
By Biraj Swain: Year-ender television programming has a set format of look-backs on the year gone by, TV programmes gone by, the best and the worst. Sometimes these look-backs extend into the first...
View ArticleWe All Have A Part To Play In Human Trafficking, Watch How That Can Change
By The Storygraphers: Human trafficking is the third biggest organised transnational crime. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), it generates $150 billion a year in illegal...
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The Way This Teenager’s Brutal Murder Was Ignored Shows How Biased Even...
By Joydeep Sarkar: Image Source: India Today Meenakshi, a 19-year-old girl, was stabbed to death by two youngsters in New Delhi in Anand Parbat, in July 2015. A class 11 student, she was brutally...
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Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not Racist, Because These Incidents Prove Otherwise
By Ushnav Shroff: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin...
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When Will We Stop Blaming Depression For Student Suicides And Address The...
By Natasha Narwal: Source: Flickr “Did clinical depression kill Rohith Vemula or did a cultural cartel? There are reasons why ‘both’ does not make for a robust answer,” writes Manu Joseph in a recent...
View ArticleWaiting To Watch ‘Aligarh’? Check Out Manoj Bajpayee In This Quirky Short...
By Rohini Banerjee: Manoj Bajpayee has always been a criminally underrated actor. He has delivered many praiseworthy performances that either go unwatched, or unappreciated. However, that is slowly...
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“God Put The Baby In Her Tummy”: What I Learnt In The Name Of ‘Sex Education’
By Madhavi Jadhav: Source: REUTERS/Arko Datta 1993 (I am eight years old): We all are glued to the idiot box. Suddenly, an advertisement for sanitary napkins pops up on screen. I inquisitively ask...
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Caste, Religion & Region Are The Big Reasons Why Indian Democracy Is In The...
By J Jaykris Gurucharan: It is indeed no surprise that 20th-century India is in a deep democratic crisis characterised by inexcusable tyranny and cohesion, thus creating a completely non-altruistic...
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It’s Time To Look At Those Who Perpetuate Caste Oppression By Not...
By Nissim Mannathukkaren: Source: The Hindu “So the Swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into...
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How Applying For A Passport Turned Into A 7 Month Long Nightmare For Me
By Rohit Kumar: Source: Reuters/Munish Sharma. Though I did not take birth in a ‘well to do’ family and thus received little wealth as my inheritance, what I did receive during my upbringing is...
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Why It’s Important To Revisit This Bold Film By Anand Patwardhan On Caste In...
By Abir Misra: Still from ‘Jai Bhim Comrade’. Source: YouTube. One fine day, a Dalit colony wakes up to the site of their revered leader’s statue garlanded with shoes. Dalits come out in outrage, only...
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My View Of How Capitalism Has Strengthened The Right Wing Outlook In India
By Saarang Narayan: Source: Reuters/Pawan Kumar. In all the textbooks of capitalism and political economy, one will always find the notion that capitalism as an economic system is accompanied by the...
View ArticleThis Music Video Is A Harsh ‘Wake Up’ Call For Those Who Ignore The Rot In...
By Saksham Leekha: In these times of ‘intolerance’, lynching and murder over the type of meat on your plate, the ever increasing crimes against women, re-criminalisation of homosexuality etc, I wonder...
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An ‘Outsider’ Living In Bangalore Shares How Locals Can Make You Feel Unwelcome
By Hemant Gairola: Image Source: Wikimedia Commons As a ‘northie’ who has lived in Bangalore for six years, I wasn’t one bit shocked at what the mob did to the young Tanzanian woman. I fully expect...
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4 Ways In Which Online Dating Can Challenge Rigid And Orthodox Mindsets In India
By Apoorv Pathak: India is a fast-changing society. A young nation (which is not a prisoner of past certainties) embracing change, the advent of technology and increased interconnectedness making...
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What Gives Us The Right To Call Ourselves A Democracy When Section 377 Still...
By John A Raju: What is democracy? Other than the textbook definition of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” there are several deeper aspects to democracy, especially in the...
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Why It’s Great To Have An Opinion, But Not When You’re Blindly Following The...
By Shasya Goel: Source: Flickr. In this fiercely opinionated world, not having an opinion is considered a crime unparalleled by any other on Earth. But how is it possible to maintain a consistent...
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This Photograph Celebrating Queer Pride In India Was Subjected To Disturbing...
By YKA Staff: On February 6, Mumbai’s annual pride parade, the Queer Azaadi March, took place with around 7,000 people participating. The atmosphere was joyous, with cries of equality and freedom from...
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