Dating Apps And The Gradual Loss Of Intimacy
Imagine yourself sitting at a bar with a bunch of 20-somethings and some 30-plus men and women. Of course, there is a lot to speak about when young minds get together, but there is one subject that’s...
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Beware, Ladies! If You Do These 5 Things Then You’re No More A Sanskaari Woman
A woman in traditional Indian attire, who gets up even before the sun rises and the rooster wakes up, greets all her elders, finishes with all her household chores and then prays to God for the well...
View ArticleMy Visit To IKEA Reminded Me Of A Pilgrimage To Tirumala
Long ago, I, along with my family, undertook a pilgrimage to Tirumala, the hill temple of Lord Venkateswara. We were part of a multitude of devotees who thronged the shrine to have a darshan of the...
View ArticleWe Need To Contain The Hatred That Is Spreading Across Jammu And Ruining The...
A lot has happened in the last few years in the country, especially in Jammu and Kashmir. I am unable to let go of the image of it all happening in my backyard. My home which I used to think was free...
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Valuable Lessons State-Level Universal Health Coverage Schemes Have For...
By Rachita Vora and Smarinita Shetty: Founder of Karuna Trust and VGKK, Padma Shri Dr H Sudarshan has been at the forefront of reforming the health system in Karnataka. While the initial decades of his...
View Articleबेटी को राधा बनाने वाले पेरेंट्स उसका बड़े होकर किसी कृष्ण से प्रेम नहीं...
कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी उन चुनिंदा त्यौहारों में से एक है जो भारत के अधिकांश हिस्सों में धूम-धाम से मनाया जाता है। कहीं कृष्ण की उपासना तो कहीं राधा-कृष्ण की उपासना और दही-हांडी तोड़ने की परंपरा चलती आ रही है...
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“We’re Still Not Priority”: An Informal Sector Worker’s Journey Towards...
By Avinash Krishnamurthy: Annamma runs a “Dry Waste Collection Centre” (DWCC) in Bengaluru. DWCCs, one for each ward, are facilities meant to ensure that all the dry-waste of the city is collected...
View ArticleSabarimala Entry Case: When Entry To A Temple Is Denied In God’s Own Country
For centuries women in our society have had to struggle for an equal representation in public spaces. The struggle has not only been about representation but an ideological battle with the deep rooted...
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Have You Heard Of This Place In Delhi Where People Keep Their Water Locked?
Slums or famously known as the black spots of the urban cities we live in, face injustice at every step. I have visited quite a few of these black spots due to various reasons in the past five years...
View Articleक्या हमारा समाज संवेदनहीन और व्यवस्था बलात्कारी हो गई है
हम कैसे घिनौने समाज का हिस्सा हैं यह तो सर्वविदित है। मुज्ज़फरपुर की घटना से तो बस समाज का ये वीभत्स रूप समाचारों की सुर्ख़ियों में आ गया। मुज्ज़फरपुर के बालिका गृह में होने वाले रेप कुकांड का जो...
View ArticleThe Judgement Demonstrates The Value Of Persistent Community Activism: PFI
Population Foundation of India (PFI) congratulates LGBTQ citizens on the Supreme Court verdict setting aside provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, that criminalised consenting sexual...
View ArticleThe Quest For Equal Rights Is Not Over Yet
The Union Government had left the issue of decriminalizing Section 377 of the IPC, to the ‘wisdom of the Supreme Court’. As the Supreme Court has now delivered its verdict; the centre needs to do its...
View ArticleThe Hypocritical ‘Mother Tongue’ And The Dilemma Around It
Mother, an overhyped word with overhyped emotion. Shocked! Right? We say the mother is equivalent to God being present on earth in human form. She is supreme and the love she bestows on her child...
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The Founder Of Asia’s 1st Milk Bank Lays Bare India’s Unorganised Health Sector
By Ayesha Marfatia and Rachita Vora: In 1989, Dr Fernandez set up Asia’s first milk bank at Sion Hospital. She then went on to start SNEHA in the early 1990s with the aim to reduce maternal and...
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Satbir Singh – A Kargil War Veteran Who Took Six Bullets Now Runs Juice Stall
By Janhavi Sharma: Fighting for the country is perhaps the most selfless of tasks. However, it is also the one which is most often taken for granted and not given as much credit as it deserves; even...
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Man Looking For ‘Non-Feminist’ Wife Makes Rape Threats To Women Who Called...
We are nine months into the 18th year of the 21st century. It would have been good to believe that we’ve evolved as a society. It would have been good to believe that we’ve taken steps towards a future...
View Articleभारतीय दूल्हों को फेमिनिस्ट दुल्हनों से डर क्यों लगता है?
दो दिन पहले फेसबुक पर ही एक महिलाओं के ग्रुप में किसी लड़की ने एक तस्वीर पोस्ट की। किसी समाचार पत्र के मैट्रिमोनियल सेक्शन से ली गई एक विज्ञापन की तस्वीर थी वह। विज्ञापन पढ़कर हो सकता है आप हंसेंगे।...
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3 Years Of Incorrect Medication Cost Me A Lung
A few years ago, I was at the peak of my life. I was successful, happy and ambitious. But I fell ill and was diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) at the first test. Till then, TB...
View ArticleZomato, Swiggy Are Delisiting Restaurants That Fail To Comply With FSSAI’s...
Honestly, “your food is on its way” is one of the happiest notification that a food aggregator app can send to their customers. These food aggregator apps like Swiggy, Zomato, UberEats, and Foodpanda...
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This Rural Woman From Tribal Hinterland Is Changing The Agricultural Landscape
Hardships, tensions, time-bound project pressures, are widely identified as reasons that are taking away innovation from modern lives and further making life stressful and dull. This might be the story...
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