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This Is The Story Of Hamida Who Had To Pretend That She Wasn’t Coughing Up...
By Urvashi Prasad: That night Hamida tasted blood again. [caption id="attachment_62550" align="alignleft" width="458"] For representation only[/caption] It began as a cough, a slow, lingering and...
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How ‘Illiterate Women’ In Rural Rajasthan Are Being Trained To Become Solar...
By Lea Goelnitz: [caption id="attachment_62559" align="alignleft" width="439"] Photo courtesy: Florian Lang[/caption] A village that is a six-hour train ride from New Delhi has been realising a...
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This 14-Year-Old Put An End To Child Marriage In Her Village By Putting Up A...
By Abza Bharadwaj: [caption id="attachment_62669" align="alignleft" width="464"] Source: World Children's Prize[/caption] Wisdom in childhood is rare. We either expect them to be passive followers...
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When It Comes To Sex, Whose Responsibility Is Sexual Pleasure?
By Shambhavi Saxena: [caption id="attachment_62771" align="alignleft" width="446"] Source: tamaralvarez/Flickr[/caption] Sex has to be consensual. Otherwise, it’s rape. Just to clear this up at the...
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8 Easy Ways To Save Money If You’re A Perpetually Broke Student
By Shambhavi Saxena: Being a student in India is often synonymous with living on a tight budget, especially when 'home' is far away from your school or college. Our bank accounts are our lifelines,...
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By Lipi Mehta: What is the best gift that one can give to a child? Prakash Rao, a tea stall owner in Cuttack has found the best answer to this question. At the age of 7, he had to leave his education...
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5 Women Entrepreneurs Talk About Their Work That’s Empowering Hundreds Of Women
By Lipi Mehta: There’s a silent, resilient spirit that exists around the world. It’s the spirit that lets women borrow tampons and sanitary pads in a public restroom without shame; that makes friends...
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When Funds Are Available, Why Isn’t The Govt. Tackling This Deadly But...
By Abhishek Jha: Source: REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw In October 2015, Maneka Gandhi, the women and child welfare minister criticised the Modi government publicly for having made budget cuts in the social...
View ArticleAt This Unique Café In Agra, Acid Attack Survivors Serve An Important Social...
By Shruti Sonal: In May 2012, Ritu’s cousin attacked her with acid. With grave difficulty, she reached the hospital half an hour later, and when she tried to ask for help, the acid went into her...
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7 Films, TV Shows & Books This Year To Prove Women Are Much More Than ‘Mere...
By Amrita Singh: Remember the time when movies used to glorify stalking and sexual harassment? When women were portrayed either as helpless, dependent or the hero’s arm candy? Thankfully, the...
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Is This Going To Be The Year For Trans Equality In India?
By Shambhavi Saxena: There are those among us who still think trans and non-binary people have been sent by the Devil (or some variation thereupon) to test our virtue. There are those among us who...
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In The Fight For Equal Rights For Women, These 8 Things Should Give You Hope
By Nazeef Mollah: The new year has begun with some positive news about steps taken to empower women at their workplace, as well as within the household. It may not be a bonanza, but it sure is a treat....
View ArticleWatch The Inspiring Story Of Santosh Who Helped Feed 170,000 People During...
By Ruchir Saraf: Chennai received 14 inches of rain in two days, the heaviest recorded in 100 years. The city got cut off from the rest of the world with a power outage that lasted 3-4 days. No one...
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Meet Rudrani Chettri, The Founder Of India’s 1st Transgender Modelling Agency
By Shambhavi Saxena: It’s an understatement to say that trans or gender non-conforming people have it hard in India. The common person’s misunderstandings about their nature and an unhealthy interest...
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Facebook Got Competition? Check Out This Hindi Social Networking Site That’s...
By Komal Nathani: Possessing an idea of Hindi interface, IIT Mumbai Alumnus Amitesh Mishra entrenched a long-awaited platform in the world of web. The young engineering scholar gave up lucrative job...
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From The Arab Spring To Chennai Floods: How Online Campaigns Have Led To Real...
By Shruti Sonal: Online activists or “slacktivists” as they have been termed by some, are often criticised for robbing the term activism of its meaning. These are the people who change their profile...
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These Inspirational Real Life Heroes Are Fighting A Deadly Enemy That India...
By Lipi Mehta: When writer Dorothy Parker set out to write ‘The Great American Novel’, she actually found herself in a TB sanatorium in the Swiss mountains. Looking at the condition of the patients...
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The Story Of This Lesbian Couple Proves That All Love Deserves to Be...
By Rohini Banerjee for Youth Ki Awaaz: Editorial Note: Every time around Valentine’s Day we celebrate only one kind of love — the heterosexual kind — and queer love is hardly mentioned. Not all...
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6 Simple Yet Brilliant Inventions That Are Changing The Lives Of Women In India
By Shruti Sonal: Have you ever wondered how simple life would be as a woman if you could pee standing? Or have chulhas that don’t choke you? As it turns out, innovative use of technology has made...
View Article2.5 Lakh Die Of This Disease Every Year. Watch How Much (Or Little) We Know...
By YKA Staff: It kills almost 2.5 lakh (250,000) people in India a year, causes a tremendous amount of stigma and isolation for those suffering from it, yet, we know very little about it. Tuberculosis...
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