Be Better, Be A Hero: The Green Batti Project For Socially Deprived Kids In...
By Ankita Ghosh: "My mentee, Sharmeen, is a sensitive 13-year-old girl who finds great happiness in spending time with her baby sister and is disturbed for days when her mother falls sick. She’s a...
View ArticleHefty Security Deposits And Damaged Homes: Bengaluru’s Landlord-Tenant Problem
By Vinay Kumar: The landlord-tenant relationship has to go hand in hand like a marriage, if not, all hell breaks loose. I have always heard my friends (both landlords and tenants) complaining about...
View Article“Why Didn’t I Get Justice Like The Delhi Gang-Rape Victim? Why Is My Rapist...
By Manjari Singh: [envoke_twitter_link]Ten years have passed, but this rape survivor from Lucknow is still far from giving up[/envoke_twitter_link]. She is still waiting for that final verdict and is...
View ArticleYou Might Not Realise, But Science Says Listening To Music Makes You Smarter
By YKA Staff: You could be surrounded by honking cars on a road cramped with vehicles, standing in a metro or bus full of loud humans, or you could be having a hard day and want an instant pick-me-up....
View ArticleThe Man Assumed Dead By His Family Was In Jail For 25 Years: Mahendra...
By Tinku Paul: All humans are born equal and free, but restrictions in the form of duties are imposed on humans to ensure the rights of others. With unbridled social change both in the domestic and...
View ArticleForced Into Becoming A ‘Proper Girl’ By Parents, Trans Teen Shivy Escapes To...
By Shambhavi Saxena: Almost everyone has complaints with their parents’ prying and hiding their electronics in an attempt to get them to study for an hour or two. But what happened with Shivy Bhatt,...
View ArticleWhy Masahun Khatun And 50,000 Pregnant Women Died
By Prachi Salve and Video Volunteers, Indiaspend.com: Last year, in eastern Bihar’s Phulvari Sharif, 24-year-old Masahun Khatun was five months pregnant when she fell in the front yard of her house....
View ArticleAvoiding Eating Fat? Don’t. Your Brain Needs It, Find Out Why
By YKA Staff: Many articles about working smarter, not harder have been doing the rounds of the internet. Any such articles would tell you about various methods that one can adopt to be more...
View Article[Y]ral: LSE Prof. On The Need For Diversity In Offices And Why Women Are...
By Asmita Sarkar: The bias against working women is so inherent in India that a Chhattisgarh school textbook recently landed up in the news for carrying the message that working women are the cause of...
View Article6 Points That Tell You A Child Is Being Abused, And What You Can Do To Help
By Pratiksha Mishra: Children are little buds that need a healthy environment to bloom, and the abuse that is done to them makes them go into a peevish cocoon and never venture out. It could be a scar...
View ArticleThe Final Goodbye: Diverse Ways Cultures Across The World Perform Funeral Rites
By YKA Staff: Globalisation has led to increased mobility across borders. 2010 data suggests that India plays host to more than 2 lakh expatriates and the number keeps increasing. India is also the...
View ArticleIndia Is Calling Women ‘Witches’ To Settle Scores And Get Away With Murder
By Devang Pathak: Note: This article was originally published on Homegrown. The duality of the Indian existence is a reality we must constantly remind ourselves of, even when we might loathe the...
View ArticleHarassed Online, Years On, My Friend’s Scars Still Haven’t Healed
By Bhavna Sultana: [envoke_twitter_link]The rise of cyber assault in India is a very bothering issue[/envoke_twitter_link]. Considering the number of people that now have access to the internet, the...
View ArticleStop Saying That India Is A ‘Democracy’, Because All Evidence Points To The...
By Shreya Chatterjee: दुश्मन की गोलियों का सामना हम करेंगे, आज़ाद हैं, आज़ाद ही रहेंगे | — चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद (We will face the bullets of our enemies, but we will not compromise on our freedom-...
View ArticleSurprisingly, States With The Worst Sex Ratios Have Most Female MLAs In...
By Bhanupriya Rao and Saumya Tewari, IndiaSpend.com: States with poor development indicators for women (mainly sex ratio and female literacy) have higher representation of women in their vidhan...
View Article‘The Man Was Dying In Front Of Us, And People Were Making Videos’
By Minu Jaiswal: I have finally gathered the courage to collect my thoughts and talk about something which left me speechless for so long. I know that it actually takes a lot of courage to change the...
View ArticleDon’t Be A Passive Bystander When You Can Stop Molesters: Instead Of A Slap,...
By Ekta Kapoor: “It’s a simple number game I tell you, there are three of them but only you to protect her, so the wisest thing would be to back off and pretend nothing ever happened”. When was the...
View ArticleAll It Takes Is An Idea, Sirji! 5 Groundbreaking Yet Simple Innovations...
By Shruti Sonal: Recently, I came across an article about an initiative by two friends-Raj Desai and Pratik Agarwal - who came up with an amazing technological invention that encourages people to...
View Article“How Can A Muslim Woman Be A Feminist? Let’s See How”
By Arshi Dokadia: When one thinks about Muslim women, there comes this image in mind, where we are dressed from head to toe in a burkha and only our eyes visible. We are not allowed to gain an...
View Article‘I Wondered Why Victims Of Sexual Abuse Never Speak Up, Till My Own Uncle...
By Anonymous: Trigger warning: This post has graphic content. I was trying to give myself a mourning period. A period where I could eat what I wanted, slept as much as I wanted, neglect my work and...
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