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An Average American Spends $97 Or Rs. 6000 Per Day. Guess What An Average...
By Saumya Tewari, IndiaSpend.com: The average American spends $97 every day, the average Chinese $7 and the average Indian $1.8, according to Goldman Sachs data and an IndiaSpend analysis. An Indian...
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Is It Time To Do Away With Death Penalty In India?
By Simran Bhinder: Source: Flickr. In 1967, the Law Commission of India had reported: “Having regard, however, to the conditions in India, to the variety of social upbringing of its inhabitants, to the...
View ArticleCan You Go Diving In A Wheelchair? Watch These Resilient People Prove That...
By Our Better World: Everything that happens up to the magical moment when you descend into the cool waters on a dive is demanding. It often starts with long journeys involving planes, buses, cars and...
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How We’re All Losing Out To This ‘Faceless Enemy’ A.K.A. Patriarchy
By Aditya Gupta: How do you challenge or overthrow something that does not really exist? I don’t mean to say that patriarchy doesn’t really exist, but there is no King Patriarch or the Holy Book of...
View ArticleWith 9 Farmers Committing Suicide Every Day in Maharashtra, The Situation Is...
By Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com: As many as 3,228 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra in 2015, the highest since 2001, according to data tabled in the Rajya Sabha on March 4, 2016–that is...
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Why Naxalism Will Remain In India As Long As We See It As A Law & Order...
By Sanjay K Bissoyi: Starting from ‘Garibi Hatao’ (Poverty Alleviation) to ‘Poverty is a state of mind’, Antyodaya (‘serving the last man in the queue’) to ‘Sabka saath, sabka Vikaas’ (Collective...
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9 Countries With Extremely Absurd LGBTQ+ Laws That’ll Make You Go “What The…”!
By Amrita Singh for Cake: “It takes no compromise to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to...
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Not An Indian Technically, Here’s Why I Still Call Myself A Proud Indian
By Vishal Bheeroo: Is there something called root connection? I often ask myself whether, as human beings, we get trapped in the past and must somehow adopt the land where we have spent our life – our...
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6 Cities Protest, Demand Justice For Bikaner Student Allegedly Raped By PT...
By Abhishek Jha and Suresh Jogesh: Protests have erupted in Barmer, the hometown of the 17-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped and murdered by the Physical Trainer and Instructor (PTI) at her...
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Protesting NIT Students Want Institute Shifted Out, Action Against...
By PTI: Image source: Twitter Tension prevailed at NIT Srinagar with outstation students making a slew of demands, including shifting the institute out of Kashmir and action against the policemen...
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Facing Sexual Harassment, 22-Year-Old Student Commits Suicide In Kurukshetra...
News by YKA Staff: Image source: Thomas Hawk/Flickr A 22-year-old Post-Graduate student of Kurukshetra University allegedly committed suicide yesterday leaving behind a note that blamed one of her...
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So Much Anger Over ‘Bharat Mata’, But None For Rich Hiding Their Money?...
By Nandini Mazumdar: While we Indians fill our days being offended about beef and university students, serious issues like money laundering and tax evasions continue to be brushed under the carpet. The...
View ArticleHow More Journalists Were Killed Reporting On Politics In The Last One Year,...
By Zita Campbell, IndiaSpend.com: When Karun Misra did die–shot at close range while riding a motorcycle on his way home–it was a shock to his family. He left behind a wife, Payal, and two young...
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The Happy Story Of A Farmer Who Regained His ‘Love For Farming’ In India....
By Pannaga Prasad: It is April in Shiggaon, an agricultural taluk in Dharwad district in North Karnataka. The region has suffered drought for two consecutive years and the soil is dry and baking brown....
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How Carol Gracias Bashed Stereotypes By Walking The Ramp Pregnant
By Rohini Banerjee for Cake: The fashion industry has almost always been associated with perpetuating a harmful body image—that of stick-thin, conventionally attractive bodies. However, in recent...
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Caught Peeping At Woman Inside A Toilet, 19-Year-Old To Be Jailed For...
By YKA Staff: A 19-year-old man was sentenced to one year in jail after he was caught peeping into a lavatory which was being used by a woman. Initially, the woman’s mother had filed a complaint, but...
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What I Learned About ‘Privilege’ Living In The City
By Tia Ray: Image credit: Reuters/Desmond Boylan. I no longer see poor people. I have become almost accustomed to the sight of the starving and the homeless. Like most of my fellow citizens, I too have...
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For My Grandma: The Resilient Woman Who Taught Me To ‘Smile In Pain’
By Kunal Arora: Representation only. Source: Flickr. Now in her seventies, my maternal grandmother was the epitome of beauty and gregariousness in her young age. Married at the tender age of 19 to an...
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Cigarettes To Kids, Making Them Dance: How ‘Tribal Tourism’ Is Exploiting...
By Ritika Potnis: Image credit: Reuters/Reinhard Krause. In February, earlier this year, the government of Odisha decided to once again allow foreigners to visit areas with a tribal population after a...
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Kashmiri Pandits Make Strong Appeal: ‘Refrain From Attacking Kashmiri Muslim...
By YKA Staff: Editor’s Note: On April 1, 2016, non-Kashmiri students at National Institute of Technology in Srinagar were roughed up by the state police allegedly without any provocation after several...
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