No End To Harassment, Abuse And Violence In Campuses Around Kerala
Campuses in Kerala are under high pressure these days. Things started when two Dalit students were brutally ragged in Nattakom Polytechnic College, Kottayam, by senior students. Avinash, the boy from...
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The Everyday Struggle Of Being A Muslim In India
Islam is one of the most misunderstood religions in the world. People stereotype everything we do without knowing the actual reasons behind it. Here are the daily struggles of being Muslims in India....
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Sorry Soldiers, But We Dont Care
January 15 2017, a normal Sunday for most of us Indians, we look in the newspapers, look up the web the world is going the way it is. Is there anything special about that day? To most of us maybe not...
View Article‘ये अदालत जिस नतीजे पर पहुंची है वो खतरनाक है’
“मृतक की गलती यह थी कि वह किसी दूसरे धर्म से आता है, मैं इस तथ्य को आरोपी के पक्ष में मानती हूं तथा आरोपी को धर्म के नाम पर उकसाया गया था,जबकि उसका कोई क्रिमिनल रिकॉर्ड नहीं है।” उपरोक्त पंक्तियां...
View Article“क्यूंकि बच्चे मन के सच्चे होते हैं”
बच्चे अच्छे होते हैं, मगर वो छोटे होते हैं। कॉलेज जाने वाले बच्चे नहीं होते। जो बच्चे बड़े हो जाते हैं, जिन्हें बुरे-भले की समझ आ जाती है, जो बहकावे में नहीं आते, जो काम करने के पहले सोचते हैं, जो...
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The Dishonesty Of Today’s Dating World
It seems like everywhere you turn, there is someone looking down at their phone, refusing to interact with the people around them. It’s important to say that not everybody is like this. But every...
View ArticleHow The Struggle To ‘Fit In’ Kills Our Imagination
All this inexplicably wondrous world and the realms beyond and within that we see, we have observed as children but somewhere along the path of growing up we have forgotten to enrich our minds with....
View ArticleWhat Most Of Us Don’t Know About Bhagat Singh’s Ideology
There is no doubt that Bhagat Singh is one of the most celebrated martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle. He has left behind a legacy that everyone wants to appropriate, yet most do not wish to look...
View ArticleHow To Be An ‘Ideal Girl’ As Per The ‘Typical Indian Society’
Hello everyone! I don’t know where and what to start with. Because if I try to narrate each and every aspect of this very topic, it will continue indefinitely. Still, I want to highlight some of my...
View Article“चुनाव में बगावतियों और बारात में जीजा-फूफा की पूंछ टेढ़ी होती है।”
कहे झम्मन बुरा न मानिए बारात में जीजा-फूफा चुनाव में बगावतिये संभालिए। चुनाव और शादी एक सिक्के के दो पहलू हैं। तैयारियां दोनों की होती हैं। दोनों में विघ्नसंतोषी और बिचौलिये भी होते हैं। एक में घर...
View Article34 Women, 3 FIRs, 1 Year: Why Isn’t The Govt. Acting On Chhattisgarh Rapes?
Early this year, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) found that 16 women were “prima facie victims of rape, sexual and physical assault by state police personnel in Chhattisgarh” in Bijapur...
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How Tibetans In Delhi Are Keeping Their Culture Alive
The innumerable multicoloured flags fluttering on terraces at Majnu Ka Tilla in New Delhi near Kashmiri Gate signify the cultural and physical presence of a mini-Tibet. This colony has been home to...
View Articleजल्लिकट्टू और नैतिकता
किसी भी स्थान या संस्कृति विशेष के लोगों द्वारा किया जाने वाला कोई आयोजन, खेल, भाषा, भोजन सामग्री का पैटर्न, त्यौहार इत्यादि, उस संस्कृति विशेष में कई सालों से अपने आप ही समाहित हो गया होता है। समय के...
View ArticleWhy India’s Obsession With English Is Hurting Its Own Citizens
200 years of British rule in India was very likely to have some long-term effects. The ‘trajectory’ of the English language in India is one of them. Though we are physically free, however, we are...
View ArticleThe Misplaced Priorities Of The Indian Nationalists
The term ‘nation’ has had many different meanings, but it can generally be defined as a large body of people united by a common descent, history, culture or language and inhabiting a particular area or...
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Real Stories Of India’s Bravest Children Come Alive In This Teacher’s Books
Each year, for the last 10 years, when India’s bravest children land in the capital to receive the National Bravery Awards, a tall, bespectacled man follows their every step. Away from media attention...
View Articleरिटायरमेंट के पहले भी और उसके बाद भी
अब कोई रिटायर नहीं होता। पहले ट्रक के टायर रिटायर होते थे और उन पर दोबारा रबर चढ़ाकर रोड पर उतार दिया जाता था। बीमा कम्पनियों की तरह हो गयी है नौकरी, रिटायरमेंट के पहले भी और रिटायरमेंट के बाद भी।...
View ArticleIn The Buzz Of U.P. Elections, Rise In Rape Cases In This District Goes...
The Uttar Pradesh elections are almost around the corner and amidst all the buzz around the rift within the first family of the state, whose daughter-in- law’s doing what, and the usual concerns of...
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National Disinterest: Why Tej Bahadur Spoke
For too long, I have been thirsting for dissent; dissent in India, and dissent in the Indian army. For too long, I was worried that we had either gone beyond or never reached the healthy art of...
View ArticlePolice Burns, Loots During Jallikattu Protests, Destroys 250 Women’s...
So far, the Tamil Nadu Police has maintained that they did not indulge in any violence in Chennai while clearing the city of Jallikattu protesters on January 23 and that videos circulating on social...
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