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Over 5000 Indians Were Pushed To ‘Modern Slavery’ Daily In 2 Years, Report...
By Shreya Mittal & Sukanya Bhattacharyya, IndiaSpend.com: “No one can imagine such a painful life. There is much torture on me and I am punished even at my minor mistakes like a child. My family is...
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By Our Better World: Khai Aziz’s life has been surrounded by drugs – his friends lost their lives because of it, his brother was stuck in a vicious cycle of heroin, and a man in his village wanted to...
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Peaceful Protest By Manipur’s Hill Tribals Turns To Brutal Attack By Police
By Sam Ngaihte: 280 days after that fateful incident in Manipur where the passing of three contentious bills by the Legislative Assembly led to the killing of nine innocent tribals, the state continues...
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In A Country Obsessed With Fair Skin, The ‘Fairest’ Face Discrimination The Most
By Swati Verma: It was in the winter of 2005 that I first saw Suraj. With his almost translucent skin, hair as white as freshly fallen snow and a curious absence of colour from his skin; it was hard to...
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Will Suppressing Free Speech In ‘Udta Punjab’ Solve The State’s Rampant Drug...
By Shruti Sonal: The censor board has once again wielded its scissors and recommended 89 cuts in the movie ‘Udta Punjab’. This has left producer Anurag Kashyap miffed, prompting him to compare the...
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I’m A Woman Who Plays Video Games And We’ve All Always Existed. Surprise!
By Saswati Chatterjee: If I was paid for every time someone asked me about the fact that I play video games (with so much surprise in their voice), I’d never need to work a day in my life. I resigned...
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Why Calling The Ayodhya Dispute ‘Good Vs Evil’ Is Just Problematic
By Shruti Sudarsan: The Ayodhya dispute has baffled me for a long time now. The dispute is a political and socio-religious dispute in India that concerns a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya, located...
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Called ‘Mini-Pakistan’, What Life Is Like For Residents Of A Muslim-Majority...
By Nafees Ahmad: Since 1997, I have been living in Batla House, Jamia Nagar. Jamia Nagar in the 1990s was very different from what I see today. For starters, it was not as congested. The decades of...
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On Shaving And Shaming: How I Was Taught My Body Hair Makes Me Unattractive
By Aakanksha Sardana for Cake: The earliest memory I have of the shame that accompanied body hair was wearing shorts to school as a 13-year-old. They revealed my hairy legs, and I was one of the few...
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I Used To Think That Social Work Was Boring, But ‘Desire’ Changed My Mind
By Shubham Mishra: While getting back to college after an exhilarating two-month vacation, I got to know about a social entrepreneurship cell Desire Foundation working in my college. At first, I wasn’t...
View ArticleThe Way These Fearless Tribal Women Are Protecting Their Lands Will Inspire You
By Anjana Radhakrishnan: India and its relationship with its tribal people has been rocky and uneven to say the least. Transitioning from the freedom movement, the attitudes of even the most...
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How Rape Survivors In India Get Blame, Not Support
By Avilasha Ghosh: On January 17, 2015, a 23-year-old woman was raped by a 20-year-old Stanford University student named Brock Turner while she was unconscious after a house party. She was raped behind...
View ArticleHow Long Can India Ignore Almost 60 Million People Suffering From Mental...
By Nishanth Chakkere: The ‘examination months’ of March, April and May are particularly stressful periods in the calendar year of every student. It is even more so for students deciding on colleges and...
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Why India Needs To Get Back On The Handloom Bandwagon Once And For All
By Nivedita Rai: A learned professor, while trying to make his class appreciate the nuances and varieties of the Indian subcontinent, once exclaimed, “India may seem diverse and different, if you...
View ArticleStories From The Ground: How I Learnt About Self-Governance From A Village In MP
By Vishnukant Govindwad: It was in the middle of May, 2015 when I started working in Mandla, MP, on the Block level team of an NGO. Most of the population are tribes like Gond, Ahir, Pradhan, Baiga...
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This Rockstar Model Is Killing It With Her Stereotype Smashing Photoshoot
By Merril Diniz: Have you ever wondered why fashion runways have featured reed thin, fair-skinned models, for generations? A designer birdie finally tipped me off. Reed thin models have similar...
View ArticleWhy Our Prejudice Against NRIs Is A Unique Brand Of Racism
By Anjana Radhakrishnan: Have you ever been to a Foreigner Regional Registration Office (FRRO)? You’d remember it if you have. Despite its sleepy, harmless appearance, some pretty dreadful things can...
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Ramadan Is Rooted In Common Tradition, But Here’s How Celebrations Vary
By Nafees Ahmad: It was 3:39 a.m. in the morning when my phone rang. The call was meant to wake me up for my sahri (a pre-dawn meal). I only had ten minutes to wolf down whatever was available in my...
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“Kill The Rapist”: Having Worked In Prisons, Why I Think Our Idea Of...
By Shruti Singh: There was a girl who had been arrested and put in judicial custody for causing hurt in an act of robbery. She was a year younger than me and was already married. Her husband was...
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