Quick Byte : Menstruation Is Pure
“Charity begins at home.” Periods are often considered taboo in our society. Growing up with two sisters has imparted and evoked empathy in me towards all the women who come under the traditional...
View ArticleWhy Do We Still Clean Sewers by Hand In A Country That Sends Rovers To The Moon?
Manual scavenging, a form of untouchability, still persists in the so-called ‘New India’. This ‘New India’ isn’t devoid of caste-based discrimination as much as we’d like to believe otherwise. The...
View ArticleWho Would Marry My Daughter Off If COVID-19 Kills Me?
By Priti Patkar Over the past 4 years, I have been working closely with many adolescents (all between the ages of 16 and 18 years). Many of them had run away from their homes, primarily due to...
View ArticleHow Can Higher Education Be Used To Fight Social Exclusion For SC/ST Students?
Members of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities make up one-fourth of India (16.6% and 8.6% respectively). And yet, most Indian states struggle to ensure that at least 22.5% of students...
View Articleएनीमिया से लड़ाई की मेरी कहानी
मैं शुभांगी कोरी, जबलपुर पोली पाथर की निवासी हूं। मैं जबलपुर में अपने परिवार के साथ नानी के यहां रहती हूं। मुझसे पहले मेरे घर में किसी ने ज़्यादा पढ़ाई नहीं की है। मेरी मम्मी की इच्छा थी कि वो पढ़ें मगर...
View Article‘Bloody’ Ballads: The Politics Of Period Poetry
Poetry, since eternity, has been one of the most expressive forms of communication and an exceptionally impactful genre of literature. Poetry delivers a plethora of powerful feelings, sometimes in a...
View Article“पर्यावरण संरक्षण के लिए मैं बच्चों को सोलर उपकरण बनाना सीखा रहा हूं”
हमारा मानना है कि हम आज एक विकसित दौर में जी रहे हैं। हमारे पास ज़रूरत की तमाम सुविधाएं हैं और ये सुविधाएं घर बैठे-बैठे आसानी से हमें मिल भी जाती हैं। हमारे पास बड़े मकान हैं, बड़ी गाड़ियां हैं लेकिन...
View ArticleThe Defeating Case Of Invisible Caste Diversity In Indian Academia
In a recent news report, it was mentioned that “IITs should be exempted from reservations in faculty positions because they are Institutes of National Importance and are involved in research.” Some...
View ArticleIn India, Manual Scavenging Goes Beyond An ‘Occupation’: It’s A Human Rights...
Most of you reading this probably do not think about your shit after flushing it. Some people, though, are not so privileged. Indian society and the caste system force them to touch human excreta with...
View ArticleWhat Do Students Do When Scholarships Are Denied?
Deepak* is the first person from his family to pursue engineering. His parents work as agricultural labourers with seasonal jobs and he has two younger sisters, still in school. Counting on the...
View ArticleNavigating Caste And College As An Urban Dalit Female: “I’ve Lost Count Of...
“Kya Bh*ngi / Ch**aro wale kapde pehene hai?” (Why are you wearing clothes resembling bhangis and chamars?) “Tera dost vegetarian hai. Anda bhi nahi khata? Brahmin hai kya?” (Oh, your friend is a...
View Article“Overwhelming And Taxing”: Navigating Academia As A Dalit Woman
Jaya (name changed) 24, a Dalit woman from Mumbai, is studying Masters in Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS). She is a first-generation learner in a family with three generations...
View Article236 Million Indians Are Facing Health Risks Because Of One Food Habit We...
Did you know that almost all of India’s adolescents are malnourished? That means 236 million Indians are facing health risks big and small. From mild weakness to getting inflicted by life-threatening...
View Article66 Pages Of Text But No Mention Of Caste: Does India Care About The...
After a long wait of 34 years, India got a new National Education Policy ( NEP) in 2020. Well, better late than never. An education policy for a ‘New India’ must also be anew. It must be equitable,...
View ArticleContrary To Popular Opinion, Here’s Why Reservations Should Exist In...
Before diving into who should get reservations and who shouldn’t, we must enquire about why reservations are needed in the first place. To answer this, we will have to familiarize ourselves with...
View ArticleHow Many Rohit Vemulas Will We Lose Before We End Caste Discrimination?
Last year, the Ministry of Education shared data in the Parliament which showed that in the last five years (2014-2019), a total 7,248 students have dropped out from the IITs. The Ministry sighted...
View ArticleHow Many Colleges Really Have A Functioning Redressal Cell For The Marginalised?
Yes, even my college hasn’t created their own committee for addressing the issues of Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi students in campus but it has implemented the UGC guidelines of 12th plan which talks about...
View ArticleI Had A Period Stain On My Kurta And Made The Mistake Of Taking The Metro
Written by: Ahendrila Goswami The metro was crowded and I was running late for my class. It was 10:30am and no matter how queasy it made me feel to look at the sea of heads sticking out from the mass...
View ArticleHow Will Urban Planning And Building Design Change In A Post-Covid World?
Singapore is a fast-growing country. In March 2020, the Singaporean government stated that by 2030, 80% of all the buildings (both existing and new developments) in Singapore will become more...
View ArticleOpinion: Caste Is India’s Most Preferred Form Of Nepotism
The sudden demise of the Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput sparked a debate on nepotism, which remained a prime time favourite until the Bihar Assembly elections. I really wonder what exactly the...
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