पुलिस ज़बरदस्ती उठा कर ले गई, नजीब की बहन पूछती रही क्यों?
प्रशांत झा: इस वीडियो पर यूं तो कई कविताएं लिखी जा सकती हैं, साहित्यिक लेख लिखे जा सकते हैं, लेकिन वो तो अपना टैलेंट है, कम से कम एक सवाल तो हर मन में उठता ही है ना कि क्यों? नजीब की बहन खड़ी हैं, नजीब...
View ArticleThis Village In Udaipur Gets Drinking Water For Only 15 Days A Month
By Priyanka Sharma: Bhema Ji is sixty-five and on any given day; you will see him and his family making as many as thirty trips, from their house to the nearest hand pump one kilometre away, to meet...
View Article“लोकतंत्र का गंभीर बने रहना नेहरू की ही देन है”
विवेक राय: 2014 में मैंने पंडित नेहरू को, उनके 125 वे जन्मदिवस पर इन शब्दों में परिभाषित किया था- “You are a policy for criticism, You are a subject for discussion, You are a dream for debate, You are...
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To The Government: A Simple Wish-List Of What School Kids In India Want
By Trupti Rane: On this children’s day, children from CRY (Child Rights and You) intervention areas make a wish list for their school – in turn highlighting the infrastructure gaps ailing our education...
View ArticleTo Silence Free Speech, This One Law Has Been Used By The State All Through...
By Anirudh Belle: The legal legacy of free speech and expression is a prolific site to assess a nation’s democratic reality with its constitutional imagination. In present times, where forms or...
View Articleहेड शेव की हुई लड़की
शोभा शमी: हेड शेव कराया है। क्यों? क्यूंकि कराना था। मन था मेरा हेड शेव कराने का। ऐसे ही जैसे कॉलेज तक छोटे बाल थे, कन्धों तक फिर छोटे…वैसे ही। जैसे बचपन से आज तक अपनी छोटी बड़ी मर्ज़ियों को जिया वैसे...
View ArticleProposed Citizenship Bill: BJP’s Push To Communalise Migration In Volatile Assam
By Ayan Sharma: On November 1, in an otherwise regular and drab book launch in Guwahati, the powerful BJP minister from Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, stirred up the occasion with a contentious remark....
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US Needs To Engage With Trump Voters Instead Of Labelling Them ‘Racists’ Or...
By Nikhil Kumar: It has become a trend these days to bash Donald Trump. Well, he has become the President-elect of the United States so he must have done something right, don’t you think? Many say,...
View ArticleDemonetisation: Inconvenience For The Privileged, But A Real Problem For The...
By Sudeep Pagedar: I come from a middle-class and urban background. Most of my money is online – either in a Paytm account or in a credit or debit card. I travel by Ola and Uber and pay by my card. I...
View ArticleA 16-Year-Old On Living With Turner Syndrome
By Nicole Whittaker: I was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome at 14. Sounds scary right? Put syndrome after anything and it sounds pretty frightening. I remember sitting at the doctor’s and being told. I...
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This Video Reminds Us Why Every Kid On The Street Is Not Just ‘Chotu’
By Nitya Sriram: What’s in a name? A lot, actually. Imagine spending our lives, without names to our faces. Imagine a childhood without school, toys, goodies, festivals, three square meals, safe homes,...
View Article10 Quick Tips To Deal With The ‘Inconvenience’ Of Demonetisation
By Karthik Shankar: One week ago, Narendra Modi surgically captured every Indian’s heart with his move on black money. And this was before he melted our hearts this week with more tears than a Karan...
View ArticleDemonetisation Is Just Hurting The Common Indian, Not Black Money Hoarders
By Nandini Mazumder: I had a conversation with an auto driver this morning. I asked him how he was spending his money. He replied, “Bas chal raha hai. Dukh aur sukh toh do bhai hai.” (It’s just going...
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‘Bad’, ‘Revolutionary’, ‘Stupid’: What The Janta Thinks Of The Demonetisation
By YKA Staff: It has been over a week since ₹500 and₹1000 notes were declared as illegal tender by PM Modi. The surprise move is aimed at fighting rampant corruption in India, directly targeting those...
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Yoga Is In Everything You Do!
By Sarvesh Shashi: The first thing you do after you come out from your mother’s womb even before you start crying, is to breathe and this is the moment where your initial yoga begins. It’s amazing how...
View Articleटैक्स और काला धन
रंजन ऋतुराज: बहुत पहले की बात है, भारत की कई कम्पनी कम्प्यूटर असेंबली का काम करती थी, विप्रो, एचसीएल, ज़ीनिथ इत्यादि। कम्प्यूटर के अधिकतर पार्ट्स पर कस्टम ड्यूटी बहुत ज़्यादा होती थी, जिसके कारण इन...
View ArticleThis Unique Festival In Manipur Is Trying To Reclaim A Lost Ethnic Identity
By Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya: On October 30, groomed in their traditional attires of colourfully woven half-sleeve jackets, ‘longyis’ (sarong) and wrap-arounds, the youthful cultural troupes belonging...
View Articleभारत में सात करोड़ महिलाएं भूख दबाने के लिए चबाती हैं तंबाकू : रिपोर्ट
नित्यानंद गायेन: भारत में 15 साल और उससे अधिक उम्र की करीब सात करोड़ महिलाएं तंबाकू चबाती हैं और उसकी एक अहम वजह मेहनत वाले काम के दौरान भूख को दबाने की इच्छा है। एक रिपोर्ट कहती है, ‘‘फिलहाल 15 साल और...
View ArticleHow The State Uses The Body As A Tool For Regulation And Oppression
By Aliza Zaidi: We live in a society obsessed with notions of patriarchy, manliness, and masculinity. And yet we call ourselves free? Are we really free? For a complex society, terms like free, freedom...
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What The ‘Sonam Gupta Bewafa’ Tag Says About Fragile Indian Male Egos
By Subodh Mishra: Amidst all the demonetisation mess and the never-ending bank queues, the only person who has supposedly managed to make people smile is Sonam Gupta. Or rather ‘bewafa’ (unfaithful)...
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