The Government Must Stop Playing With The Future Of Students
Friday, 6th March, 2020: Covid-19 had already reached India at this point, but most of the country seemed unbothered. In Pune, the city in which I study and live, the first case wouldn’t show up until...
View ArticleCan You Score At Least 5/9 On This Period Product Quiz?
Menstrual Hygiene Management is about making informed decisions according to your needs and means and not just choosing an eco-friendly product. One size doesn’t fit all, and we have to see what works...
View Article“Unveiling The Blueprint Of A Totalitarian Brahminical State Through The NEP”
Unveiling the blueprint of a totalitarian Brahminical state through the National Educational Policy. “That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund make sure things don’t work, people get...
View Articleक्या आपको पता है भारत में सालाना कुल कितने टन प्लास्टिक कचरा निकलता है?
आज के वैज्ञानिक युग में ना केवल मानव विकास की रफ्तार बढ़ी है, बल्कि विज्ञान ने इंसान के जीवन को और भी अधिक सरल और सुविधाजनक बना दिया है। हालांकि नई तकनीक के प्रयोग ने कई बिमारियों से लेकर चुनौतियों और...
View Article2.7 Million Teachers Are Unequipped For Online Education. Experts Share...
With rapidly rising COVID-19 cases and the nation entering its 4th stage of ‘unlocking’, learning and schooling are being encouraged through digital forms of education. The new National Education...
View ArticleShould The Minimum Legal Age Of Marriage For Girls In India Be Raised?
For a considerable section of the female population in India “life ends before they have wings to fly”. This is predominantly because girls are married at a tender age, and to be precise, before they...
View Article34% Of Children Still Get Married Early In Koraput, Odisha
Child marriage violates every human right to which a child is entitled. Girls and boys who are married early are most likely to drop out of school and discontinue formal education. They are also likely...
View Article“Stigma Has Little To Do With Knowledge”
Stigma: It Is All About Undesirable differentness Stigma is about norms. A certain section of the society ascribes it, mandates it, and enforces it. In the literature on stigma, such groups of people...
View ArticleHow Can We Grow Resilience Through Compassion And Art?
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.” – Elie Wiesel Having survived the Holocaust, who wiser than Elie Wiesel to remind us that in times of chaos,...
View Articleक्या आपको अब भी पीरियड्स से जुड़े टैबूज़ पर विश्वास है? लीजिए यह क्विज़
माहवारी, लोगों के लिए हमेशा से एक असुविधाजनक विषय रहा है। इसे लोगों ने हमेशा एक स्टिग्मा के तौर पर देखा है और जिसे लेकर एक प्रकार की चुप्पी रही है। यहां तक कि लाखों मेंस्ट्रुएटर्स को इस नैचुरल प्रॉसेस...
View ArticleEducation In Shambles: How Do We Solve The Kaksha Crisis?
Even before the pandemic broke out, there was a looming crisis in the education sector, and now it’s in shambles. In December 2019, when the anti-CAA protests broke out, colleges and schools were...
View ArticleHow Fellow Menstruators Can Help Destigmatise Periods For The Rest
I panicked and broke into tears!,” says one of our menstruators Payal Tak, narrating her experience on her first period as part of our ongoing campaign #myfirstperiod, which aims to break the stigma...
View ArticleMyth: The Ozone Layer Is Healing Because Of The COVID-19 Lockdown
In 1987, the Montreal Protocol was signed by 199 countries to protect the ozone layer. A big hole in the Arctic was caused due to increased global warming. The rise in chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) led to...
View Article#PledgeAPeriod: Myna Mahila Foundation Is Empowering Girls In Mumbai Slums
Naamra a 20-year-old, who dropped out of college during her 2nd year had attended a menstrual hygiene management session with the Myna Mahila Foundation last year, where she learned gender attitudes,...
View Articleओजोन लेयर का छेद हमारी इम्युनिटी पर डाल सकता है बुरा असर
जब से धरती पर मानव जीवन आया है, तब से ही लोग अपने कवच की सुरक्षा करते आए हैं। फिर चाहे बात पौराणिक काल की हो, ऐतिहासिक काल की हो या फिर ग्रंथों और कथाओं में, लेकिन क्यों आज आधुनिकता की होड़ में दौड़ता...
View ArticleShould Menstruators Get Paid Leave?
According to me, menstruators should most definitely get paid menstrual leaves. Menstruation and the various symptoms of it are entirely biological and are neither in the person’s control nor to their...
View ArticleMenstrual Leave And The Case For Redesigning Workplaces For Everyone
Written by: Sanaya Patel On 6th August, 2020, Zomato introduced paid menstrual leaves for womxn and transgender people at their organisation. What followed was extensive debate and writing about the...
View ArticleForced To Urinate Behind Parked Cars, Access To Toilets A Dream For Domestic...
We rarely talk about periods as a public health crisis in the unorganised sector. Domestic workers in India are entangled in such a situation where they work long hours and are paid poorly with no job...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Has Taught Us The Biggest Lesson: Strengthen Your Education System
Authors: Haniya, Malika Iyer, Revathi Satish, Sharanya Maheshwary & Simran Sharma There is a common saying among Indians which roughly translates to, “Do well in life, especially with your...
View Articleसमानता की बात करने वाला समाज माहवारी के दौरान महिलाओं के साथ भेदभाव क्यों...
मानव अधिकार वह अधिकार है, जिसमें मनुष्य के पास मानवीय गरिमा का आधार होता है। महावारी के साथ-साथ कई ऐसे मानकों को जिस तरह से समाज इंगित करता है, वह मानव अधिकार के आधार को वास्तव में कमज़ोर करता है। मानव...
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