“Govt. Nahi Chahti Gareebi Hate”: DYK 30% Of India’s Children Are Forced Into...
India is one of the youngest countries in the world with an average age of 29, with more than 54% of the total population below 25 years of age, Yet, it is still grappling with one of the most...
View ArticleHow Can We Make The Internet Safer For Indian Women And Queer Folk?
This is the third part of the three-part series on ‘cyber violence against women’ as a part of the Justicemakers’ Writer’s Training Program, run in partnership with Agami and Ashoka’s Law For All...
View ArticleThe End Was Necessary: The Story Of My Toxic Relationship
Trigger warning: sexual and physical violence You know what when someone looks at you from a caring perspective, bubbles inside your stomach automatically start bursting. It feels good when you get...
View ArticleYour Summer Holiday Destination Is Shrouded In Dark Clouds Of Casteism
The mountains of Himachal are serene and anyone visiting its majestic sceneries doesn’t remain untouched by the beauty that these jagged hills possess. But as we know every flower is surrounded by some...
View ArticleIndia: Where Muslims Can’t Eat, Pray, Love Or Live
Trigger warning: Islamophobia “If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country, no matter what the Hindus say.” This quote by B.R. Ambedkar is a living...
View Article“जब हमारे घर की महिलाएं पिटती हैं, तो हिंदुस्तान की इज़्ज़त घटती है”
घरेलू हिंसा पर कमला भसीन जी कही हुई बातों को हमें याद करना चाहिए! वह कहती हैं कि जब हमारे घर की महिलाएं पिटती हैं हिंदुस्तान की इज्ज़त घटती है। यह इनकी कही हुई बात बहुत टीसती है, अंदर तक भेद जाती है।...
View ArticleEvery Child Deserves To Belong In A Safe Household, Are Trans Children...
Throughout the years, trans children have consistently been susceptible to dealing with abandonment by family and negligible visibility in society. Prioritising gender expression induces us to lose a...
View ArticleOur Coming Out Often Comes As A Shock, That Needs To Change
Morals, ethics, and beliefs are common factors in a society which work as an instrument to strengthen the essence of a community. These fundamentals claim to uphold the synchronized functioning of...
View ArticleMy Friend Was Told To Quit When She Asked For A Maternity Leave
India is a country that still puts the onus on motherhood and work on women. Paid maternity leaves are one such provision created to help working women have spaces for childbirth and healthcare. But is...
View Article“Must Be Lying To Bunk Tuition”: Why Don’t We Believe Child Abuse Survivors?
Trigger Warning: Child Sexual Abuse For every 11 minutes, there is one child prone to POCSO crime. – NCRB data 2020. “I felt extremely uncomfortable and gross when it happened. I also felt that my body...
View Article“India’s Mental Healthcare Seems Like A War Against The Mentally Ill”
“I was taken to a shrink when I was in 8th standard to become a boy. And he told my parents, I need shock treatment since according to him, I was putting on a facade of being a boy, but deep down...
View ArticleIn India We Can’t Talk About Sex, So How Do We Talk About Sexual Assault?
Trigger Warning: Mentions Of Sexual Assault Do you realise someone somewhere might be getting sexually assaulted while you are reading this? As per NCRBs horrifying statistics, every 16 minutes, a...
View ArticleWhere Lies The Solution Of Mental Health Crisis In India’s Labyrinth
“The law is written with a very archaic view of mental illnesses,” says a 24-year-old lawyer from Kolkata, West Bengal. When a person practising law tells you that the book is archaic, you should...
View ArticleThe POCSO Act Is Limited In Its Understanding Of Child Sexual Abuse
Trigger Warning: Mention Of Child Sexual Abuse A child below 16 is raped every 155th minute and below 10 years of age is raped every 13 hours (Kumar, Chandran, Rao, & Maheshwari, 2019). The issue...
View Article“I Work So My Mother Doesn’t Have To”: Tackling Child Labour In India
“Main isliye kama rahi hu, taaki maa ko mehnat na karni pade (I am earning, so that my mother doesn’t have to),” said Prerna, who is the daughter of a domestic worker and has been working ever since...
View ArticleHimachal Pradesh: Bringing The Mountains Out Of Caste’s Quicksand
You must have seen a plethora of advertisements on TV and online social media that claim to clear the stains one might end up putting on their clothes after a hard day’s work. These washing powders...
View Article‘Your PhD Isn’t Running Anywhere, Have A Child First’
Trigger warning: mentions of domestic abuse, suicidal ideation “I agree to come to the court and agree to marry your son only with three conditions. One I will not be forced to change my name and...
View ArticleA Lesson From 1931 History To Fight Religious Bigotry In 2022
“It is not our intention to commit the minorities to a particular position in a hurry. If they have come honestly to the conclusion that in the changed conditions of this country, it is in the interest...
View ArticleGroup Identities, Women In Communal Violence And A Peaceful Way Ahead
Identity, and especially identities shaped by and within communities, is something that almost everyone has given a shot at theorising: from philosophers such as Marya Schechtman to economists,...
View ArticleCan Decriminalizing Homosexuality Remove All Hardships For The Queer Community?
“Seldom, our society realizes or cares to realize the trauma, agony and pain which the members of Transgender community undergo, nor appreciates the innate feelings of the members of the Transgender...
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