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What Academics, Journalists And Activists Had To Say In An ‘Anti-National’...
By Anandita Ghosh and Saranga Ugalmugle: On the 23rd of February, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) and other progressive organisations held an...
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How A Simple Medical Procedure Is Bringing Back Smiles On The Faces Of Lakhs...
By Sakshi Jain: Image posted by Smile Train India on Facebook Unlike the usual merriment around a child’s birth, Dinesh’s birth brought disappointment to his parents, they even considered ‘discarding’...
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There’s A “Weapon Of Oppression” In Our Law Books, How Long Will It Take To...
By Arun Ag: August 15, 1947 marked our independence from British colonial rule, but are we free from their laws? The recent developments in Jawaharlal Nehru University raise that question again. The...
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Last Century’s Devastating Wars Have Had This Important and Positive Result
By Shivani Chimnani: Source: Flickr. World history is marked by a colossal number of wars, battles, international conflicts, crises and feuds between countries. In the ancient times, two acrimonious...
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How 20,000 Textile Workers In Haryana Are Living A Life Close To Hell: YKA...
By Abhimanyu Singh for Youth Ki Awaaz: Amit Kumar, is a young man from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, working as a “helper” in a garment factory in Udyog Vihar on the outskirts of the nation’s capital,...
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Kanhaiya’s Bail Orders Reveal How Our Courts Are Also Influenced By The...
By Geetika Arora: Source: Facebook. After the last two weeks, when most of my days were spent reading and watching everything on how the proud army of chimps (with due respect to the apes as they are...
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Four Great Scholars On How Women Have Been Silenced And How They Can Fight Back
By Neha Chaudhary: When one asks the question, “What is a Woman,” Simone De Beauvoir answers, that the very need of asking this question is testimony to the fact that the “act of being a woman,” is not...
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Hansal Mehta, Director Of ‘Aligarh’: “It’s Not Just About Professor Siras’...
By Rohini Banerjee for Youth Ki Awaaz: It’s a pleasant Saturday afternoon on March 5th as I arrive for this screening of ‘Aligarh’, for the ‘I View World Film Festival’, almost fifteen minutes late....
View ArticleJailed 14 Years On False Terrorism Charges, Mohd Aamir Khan Shares His...
By YKA Staff: “Khaki wardi ko dekhkar ekdam ghabra jata hoon…samajhta hoon aage ye cheezein khatam hongi (I feel afraid of men in police uniform, but hope that this will change in future),” says...
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My Parents’ Story Of Love Has Shown Me What Perhaps Is Missing From...
By Aakash Joshi: Source: Flickr. And somewhere in the midst of two villages a jeep carrying a few passengers stopped. In the scorching heat of summer, the passengers came out and asked the sugarcane...
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What Swami Vivekananda Thought About Hinduism Would Surprise Many Of His...
By Suresh Suresh: Source: Wikipedia. Hindutva is a word that flares up the emotions of many in the country and initiates the discussion about being ‘nationalist’ or ‘anti-national’. Hindutva is a...
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Why I Feel Neither The Govt. Nor The Students Are Raising Real Issues In...
By Akhil Oka: As the protest marches continue to fill the streets of the capital as well as other cities, it seems that there is a clear drift this time around. In fact, it is an unusual phenomenon,...
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A Book That Shows The Stark Difference Between Knowing Caste Violence and...
By Avinay Umesh-Sanyogita: “During a wedding, when the guests and the baratis, those who had accompanied the bridegroom as members of his party, were eating their meals, the chuhras would sit outside...
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Kanhaiya Kumar’s Admission That The Left Has Lost Touch With The Masses Was...
By Manisit Das: Very recently, we got to hear a spontaneous and passionate speech by Kanhaiya Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union President) post his release. The way he slammed his...
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If Apple Loses Its Fight To Retain Its Privacy, All Of Us Could Stand To Suffer
By Shivani Chimnani: Tim Cook. Over the past few decades, the whirlwind progress of information technology has been extraordinary and has profoundly changed our traditional notion of privacy. Privacy...
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Why As A ‘Bhakt’, I Reject The Idea Of A ‘Hindu’ Nation Or A World ‘Without’...
By Manoj Kurbet: Image Credit: Reuters/Adnan Abidi. The discourse on nationalism in India mainly revolves around two concepts: Hindutva and anything other than Hindutva. I would like to clarify my...
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Why The Women In My Family Ignore All The Messages That Wish Them ‘Happy...
By Aakash Joshi: Like any other morning, this morning started with the usual course of activities at our home. It was a pretty normal day for me and everyone else in the house. They began their work...
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How Mob ‘Justice’ Seems To Have Become A Substitute For Relieving Personal...
By Sarthak Chaure: Representation only. Credit: Reuters/Jagadeesh Nv. India, these days, has been making quite a buzz over issues ranging from intolerance, caste, moral policing and what not. And then...
View ArticleWatch: How A ‘Devadasi’ Broke Free From Sex Work And Is Now Empowering Others...
By Ruchir Saraf: The ancient and outlawed, yet still prevalent, practice originally gave Devadasis a comfortable life and high social standing, but began to be abused by the rich and powerful....
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Why The Recent Jat Agitation Poses The Threat Of Wiping Out The Entire...
By Ningreikhan Wungkhai: Image credit: Reuters/Adnan Abidi. The concept of reservations, whose meaning is so porous, requires a dictionary of interpretation and humility to comprehend, beyond reason,...
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