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‘Filthy Toilets, No Water, Cobwebs’: Doctor Reveals Reality About Public...
“I have seen filthy toilets, no water, shabby buildings practically falling apart, cobwebs, lab equipment and drugs strewn about [in India’s primary health centres],” shares Dr. Vandana Prasad,...
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Dabangg Cop Neha Pandey Has Launched An Attack On Desi Sharab In UP’s Unnao
By Saurabh Sharma for Youth Ki Awaaz: Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, known for its leather tanneries, is one of the most socially and economically backward districts in the country. And with elections around...
View Articleक्यों बढ़ती जा रही हैं पुलिस हिरासत में मौतें?
विश्व भर में मानवाधिकार के प्रति बढ़ती जागरूकता और मजबूत होती लोकतांत्रिक परम्पराओं के बीच पुलिस हिरासत में होने वाली मौतें थमने के बजाए साल दर साल बढ़ती जा रही हैं। मानवाधिकार संस्था ह्यूमन राइट्स वॉच...
View ArticleMy Harrowing Account Of Being Bullied In School
There are many kinds of people. But today, I’m going to talk about a special kind of people. The most horrible people in this world. I don’t know what sadistic pleasure they get out of this. They have...
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What Do We Do About Bollywood’s Sexist Lyrics? We Rewrite Them!
Bollywood doesn’t exactly have the greatest reputation in term of a balanced portrayal of women and its songs absolutely don’t help either. From the literal objectification of women to blatantly...
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Thank You For Your Feminism, Mom
By Tariqa Farrell Tandon and Suheil Farrell Tandon: In September 2015, Martha Farrell Foundation was started in the memory of our late mother, Dr Martha Farrell, a passionate civil society leader, who...
View ArticleWhy Educate Daughters If We Want To Later Domesticate Them?
My mother is a gynaecologist and my father, a BITS Pilani graduate who went on to do exceptionally well in his career. My sister and I were brought up to believe that one should always have one’s...
View Articleअब मान भी लीजिए कि यह गिरी हुई सोच हमारी सभ्यता है, वेस्टर्न नहीं।
बेंगलुरु की घटना देख कर हम और आप हैरान हो गएं। होना भी चाहिये, हम और आप संवेदनशील जो ठहरे। अख़बार, न्यूज़ चैनल जब तक दिखा रहे हैं, हम उनपर बहस करेंगे। फिर दो चार दिन बाद किसी नुक्कड़ पर वड़ा – पाव खाते...
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Sexism And 6 Other Things You Need To Give A Damn About In 2017!
By Nitya Sriram and Merril Diniz: In the year gone by, India witnessed many positives, from Gurgaon’s first Queer Pride to impressive victories by the Indian Paralympics team in Rio. 2016 also sparked...
View ArticleA Member Of The Housekeeping Staff Shares How “Educated People” Behave
So I walked into the washroom at work, that day. Radhamma, a middle-aged housekeeping staff, looked tensed and ready to breakdown. She kept mumbling something under her breath, I could not hear what...
View ArticleI Was 12!
We were a group of people travelling back to Ludhiana from the Maha Kumbh at Allahabad. So, while coming back, the train stopped at some small station and my parents had to take another train to...
View ArticleHow To Prevent Sexual Harassment Of Women In The Future
The Bengaluru mass molestation on New Year’s Eve is not only a blot on the individuals who committed the untenable act, but it also stains the image of democratic India. Almost seven decades after...
View Articleऊँची हमारी स्कर्ट नहीं, नीची तुम्हारी सोच है।
तुम लड़की हो तुम्हें ऐसे छोटे कपड़े पहनकर बाहर नहीं जाना चाहिए… तुम्हें देर रात तक यूं लकड़ों के साथ बाहर नहीं जाना चाहिए… तुम्हें पार्टी नहीं करनी चाहिए… शराब नहीं पीनी चाहिए… देर रात ऑफिस में काम नहीं...
View ArticleYes I Feel Unsafe; And No, I Didn’t Ask For It
Why do I feel unsafe in my own city? Why do they refer to it as ‘the rape capital’? Why am I always asked to be cautious, alert and aware? I too have been called names on the street. I too have been...
View ArticleWhy We Must Learn How To Support Rape Survivors
Amidst all this violence against women, where is the conversation regarding rehabilitation of survivors? While it is wonderful to clarify that #NotAllMen rape, do our men know how to cope with...
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Invest in Us
Every New Year brings new hope, new beginnings and a whole new bunch of possibilities. Every New Year, we make resolutions for ourselves; and a few days later, we break them. Let 2017 be different....
View ArticleValmiki’s Ramayana Shows Hinduism’s Inherent Misogyny and Sexism
Sage Valmiki, the author of Ramayana, portrays the epic in the soul of Rama himself. Tulsidas, notwithstanding, is excessively obsessed with saving Rama’s image, so that whatever he feels to be...
View Articleसेक्युलर समोसा बढ़ा रहा है हिंदू-मुस्लिम भाईचारा
सर्दी के मौसम में एक रुपये का समोसा मिल जाए तो ऐसा लगता है जैसे-एटीएम में पहला नम्बर आ गया और पांच-पांच सौ के पांच नोट हाथ में हों। एटीएम की लाईन हो या सुलभ की, दोनों में कष्ट बराबर होता है। एक जगह...
View ArticleOne Girl, One Voice Brings Change To Jainapur
“When we urge others to live a healthy living we forget our responsibility to live one too!” If you are from a city and if you have better facilities for toilets, you use them. But as a villager what...
View Articleना टीचर ना फर्नीचर बस कहने को है स्कूल
जिला बांदा, ब्लॉक नरैनी, ग्राम पंचायत तरहटी कालिंजर। ग्रामीण क्षेत्र में शिक्षा व्यवस्था की गुणवत्ता में हमेशा ही प्रश्नचिन्ह लगते रहे हैं, पर न व्यवस्था में कोई सुधार होता है और न व्यवस्था को बेकार...
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