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Students Take CBSE To Court For Charging A Whopping ₹1000 For Answer Sheets
By Abhishek Jha for YKA: Image credit: Reuters/Krishnendu Halder. WHIP (Whistle for Public Interest), an organisation run by law students, has brought to light a peculiar irregularity in the modalities...
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How Gujarat’s Development Model Sets A Bad Example For The Rest Of The...
By Pillai Vishnu: Image credit: Reuters/Amit Dave. During the elections in 2014, Narendra Modi’s campaign was based on the ‘Gujarat model‘. Everyone was impressed by the economic growth the state had...
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From Bullets To Bats: How Cricket Is Changing The Lives Of Afghanistan’s Youth
By Tanmay Kishore Panda: Image credit: Reuters/Adnan Abidi. Why do most Indians get horrified when someone talks about Afghanistan? Like other countries, Afghanistan also has a topological existence on...
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I Was Struck By The Glaring Gender Inequality In My Church’s ‘Women’s Day’...
By Bendangrenla Longkumer for Cake: I am a Christian woman and go to a fairly, or rather, seemingly liberal church in New Delhi. It is oriented to community building, very warm and people-friendly with...
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Why I Believe ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ Represents A ‘Patriarchal’ Idea Defined By...
By Nikita Azad: Image credit: Reuters/Mukesh Gupta. On March 21, The Indian Express ran a story on ‘Bharat Mata: from freedom struggle metaphor to patriotism’s litmus test‘ by Ashutosh Bhardwaj. The...
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Why Should I Restrict Myself To One ‘Culture’ When My Heart Belongs To So...
By Deepika Srivastava: Writing this article at 21 feels like penning a chapter of my autobiography, or chalking out a mental map of my numerous thoughts. This article comes from a girl who has her...
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How A Group Of Changemakers Is Trying To Improve Quality Of Education In...
By Sandip Wankhede: Image source: The Change Foundation. It all started in a small town called Dhule where I studied till 10th standard, in an atmosphere where students were more used to ‘Guides’ and...
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Beaten, Locked In A Box, Fed Steroids: The Shocking Lives Of Mumbai’s Young...
By Pooja Kochar: I bring you this story from the 14 lanes of Kamathipura, divided according to regional and linguistic backgrounds of the sex workers. You will be welcomed by curious eyes peering from...
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“Get Molested By Your Messiah”: How A ‘Nationalist’ Abused Me For A Tweet On...
By Arunima Singh: Source: Flickr (modified). I have recently started using Twitter a lot, and it hasn’t been all that fun. Like anyone with opinions on Twitter, I tweet mine. They are either related to...
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Why Anupam Kher Should’ve Talked About Celebrating Dissent At JNU Instead Of...
By Sparsh Upadhyay: Anupam Kher at JNU. “If you are telling the truth you don’t have to remember it,” said Anupam Kher who was in Jawaharlal Nehru University on March 18 to screen his movie. He had...
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This Non-Violent Method Of Protecting Cows Could Also Benefit Our Economy
By Prem J Das: Source: Flickr. It wasn’t very long ago that Mr. Arvind Subramanian, the Chief Economic Adviser while interacting with students of Economics at the Mumbai University, declined to answer...
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A Teacher Explains How Today’s Education Is Destroying The Youth’s Ability To...
By Ajay Lilrain: Source: Flickr. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” – Rabindra Nath Tagore It would not be an...
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Can Bangladesh’s ‘Privately Owned Slums’ Be A Good Example For India To Follow?
By Jemima Rohekar: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Sadek Khan slum, Dhaka. It’s 11:30 a.m. and the kitchen is abuzz with the sounds of lunch preparations. A woman watches...
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I Am An Indian, But Here’s Why My Regional Identity Is As Important To Me
By Ammar Bakhsh: In the days surrounding the JNU fiasco, the word ‘Nation’ got thrown around a lot. Nobody, however, took the word and tried to unravel its true meaning. It is, however, interesting...
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चित्रकूट ज़िले के ये सरकारी स्कूल ‘सर्व शिक्षा अभियान’की खोखली सच्चाई बयां...
By Khabar Laharia: Editor’s Note: As part of Youth Ki Awaaz and Khabar Lahariya‘s collaboration, we bring to you this story from the hinterlands of the country’s largest state – Uttar Pradesh. The...
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15 Photos That Reveal The ‘Dirty’ Work That Sustains One Of India’s Largest...
By Tanmoy Bhaduri: Jharia is one of the largest coal mines in India. Once it was a dense forest populated by tribes, situated in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand. The city and its people were sacrificed...
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What Do Children Receive In The Name Of ‘Free And Compulsory’ Education In...
By Vrinda Singh: Image credit: Reuters/Amit Dave. A few days back, while having a conversation with my housecleaning lady, I came to see the reality of the abysmal state of education that poor people...
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An Empty Seat In The Metro Made Me Realise How Strongly Prejudice Poisons Our...
Source: Flickr/Eric Parker (modified). By Dipankar Trehan: Delhi is a living system, it breathes, it eats, it walks and it sleeps, no, my bad, it doesn’t. It’s correct to say that the Metro is the...
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“I Am Not Wanted Even In My Nation”: A North East Indian Calls Out Our...
By Ningreikhan Wungkhai: Image Source: Google Racial discrimination against North Easterners in metropolitan cities is not at all a new occurrence, and neither is it seldom. Why should I be a...
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I Support JNU Students Completely, But Not This Display Of Sexism
Source: Flickr. By Vartika Puranik: The in-vogue JNU row has and is making people discern many revealing facts and realities. I myself relentlessly supported JNU, wrote articles and created a series...
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