“यह देश किसी धर्म विशेष की जागीर नहीं”
हमारा देश भारत हमेशा से ही धार्मिक प्रवृत्ति का देश रहा है। नानक, गौतम और चिश्ती की इस सरज़मीन पर जितनी विविधताएं पाई जाती हैं, उतनी विश्व के किसी देश में नहीं पाई जाती। वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम का सिद्धांत इस...
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Beauty From Barrenness – The Change Makers Project
As you walk down the street into “Friend’s Colony, Nagpur” where the University of Westminster design competition participants labour over the neglected piece of land, you witness the growing...
View Article12 Rail Tragedies In India That Took Place In 2016
Fifteen coaches of Ajmer-Sealdah express derailed between Rura and Metha, 70 kilometres from Kanpur on Wednesday. Over 40 people were injured and at least two people died. Before some days ago at least...
View Article17 Powerful Voices That Stood Out On Youth Ki Awaaz This Year
2016 was a big year for Youth Ki Awaaz – for one, this was the year you truly owned the platform as yours, directly publishing your stories and sharing them ahead with thousands! Over the years, you’ve...
View ArticleA Week Of Gender Queer Badassery
From the moment we are born, each one of us is assigned to one of the two boxes comprising the gender binary – male and female – depending, solely on what’s between our legs. These boxes are governed...
View Articleआइये पान पर चर्चा करें, चूना अपने हिसाब से लगाएं।
देश की सबसे बड़ी समस्या है-चर्चा। चर्चा के लिए स्थान ढूंढे जा रहे हैं। पहले गांव की चौपाल पर चर्चा के साथ-साथ लट्ठ भी चलते थे और फटाफट फैसला भी हो जाता था। पहले कुछ ही स्थानों पर चर्चा की जाती थी।...
View ArticleWhy ’50 Days’ And The Dream Of A Black Money Free India Is Fast Disappearing
William Shakespeare once wrote the following lines in his play “Measure for Measure”, “It is excellent, to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous, to use it like a giant.” The elected government...
View ArticleIn Search Of Happiness
Since the time when I was a kid, my father always said one thing to me – “Your aim in life should not be to be successful someday, or get an ideal job or earn money, you must only aim at being happy,...
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The Joke Is On Us
My memory draws me back to the emphatic win of the BJP in the 2014 general elections, which had witnessed a mostly one-sided election campaign led by the BJP’s new rising stalwart Narendra Damodardas...
View Articleअख़बार का भविष्यफल कभी गलत नहीं होता, लगी शर्त?
रोज़ाना उठकर अखबार वाला बिना पढ़े अखबार फोंगली बना कर फेंक जाता है। खेल का पन्ना काफी पीछे होता है, उससे पहले मुख्य पृष्ठ पर जाने के लिए तीन पेज के विज्ञापन देखना जरूरी होता है। ठीक उसके बाद पिछले...
View ArticleHow Packers And Movers In Mumbai Made Shifting A Nightmare
I am the mother of an 18-month old baby. On December 27, I called in packers and movers to shift from Kandivali to Ghatkopar (in Mumbai). The first thing we did when the packers entered was to tell...
View ArticleWhy Are Indian Weddings So Unnecessarily Grand?
Born and brought up in the Indian society, I have always seen Indian weddings as an exaggerated social event. Preparations begin 3-4 months before the wedding, and suddenly everyone becomes so busy and...
View ArticleWhy I Think Today’s Cartoons Are Setting Bad Examples For Kids
There are a variety of things people think of while remembering their childhood. Some remember their favourite food stall, their favourite game, or perhaps their favourite toy. I was born at the start...
View ArticleKhabar Lahariya: Best Of 2016
We’ve been playing watchdog over local authorities and systems that often fail the common folk in Bundelkhand since 2002. This year, we broke a story that ripped off the curtain of apathy that...
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How My Piece On YKA Got My Workplace To Make Washrooms More Accessible
By Jolly Mohan: Writing about your most intimate experiences is not an easy thing, and takes some guts. But if it helps people change the way they think, I believe it is totally worth it. With this...
View ArticleWhy I Think The ₹3,600 Crore Shivaji Statue Is Worth It
On 30th December 2016 Youth Ki Awaaz had published an article which was a take on the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to be built by the Government of Maharashtra in the Arabian Sea off the coast...
View ArticleReport: Audio Shows Dalit Family Abused By Doctor, Police Yet To Make Arrest
Police have registered a case under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act after a doctor at a private hospital in Barmer district abused a member of a Dalit family for not paying him, although no...
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Visit To A Children’s Home In Delhi Reveals Kids As Young As 12 Addicted To...
A group of children playing inside a children’s home in Old Delhi’s Kashmere Gate area. Photo credit: Abhishek Jha It was a winter afternoon and, behind a locked gate at the end of a quiet lane in Old...
View Articleतुम्हारे विकास के मंदिर आदिवासियों की कब्रगाह:जयपाल सिंह मुंडा
महान, दूरदर्शी और विद्वान नेता, सामाजिक न्याय के आरंभिक पक्षधरों में से एक, संविधान सभा के सदस्य और हॉकी के बेहतरीन खिलाड़ी जयपाल सिंह मुंडा का योगदान भारत की जनजातियों के लिए वही है, जो बाबा साहब...
View ArticleWhy Students Going Back To Roots Is A Good Way To Revive Different Cultures
Culture is not just a way of living, it is a part of the existence of humankind. We define, create and mould a culture and similarly, culture defines us, moulds us and has a role to play in creating...
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