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As A Working Woman, Here’s What I Think Needs To Change In The Indian Workplace
By Sangeeta Robinson: When I started working in Delhi (in 1991, after completing my post-graduation in Mass Communication) it was not very common for girls to live on their own. Those who did so were...
View ArticlePradeep Raj On The Importance Of Accessibility At CONVERGE 2016
By YKA Staff: Youth Ki Awaaz hosted its flagship event CONVERGE 2016, today, which featured a series of talks delivered by some of the most inspiring young change-makers in India. Following enriching...
View Article“हम वो बेशर्म औरते हैं जो हर पिंजरा तोड़ना जानती हैं”
यूथ की आवाज़: तारीख में ऐसी तारिखें बार बार आई हैं, जब औरतों ने हर जगह बिजलियां गिराई हैं, गर ये बात आपको छूती नहीं है तो यकीन मानिए वक्त भी आ चुका है और ऐसे लोग भी हैं जो आपकी सोच पर बिजलियां गिरा के...
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These 15 Photos Show Why Many Children Have Nothing To Celebrate On...
By Rajen Nair: It was when I lost my hearing in 2000 and had to wind up my trading business, that I did a professional course in journalism and photography. Today, I am a photojournalist based in...
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Feeling Good About Your Look? You Won’t After Reading This
By Lipi Mehta: This Diwali, I walked out of home and a firecracker burst near my foot. Frustrated, I sat on a ledge near my house, nursing my foot, wondering how years have passed, but nothing has...
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Can Only Engineering Students Be Startup Entrepreneurs?
By Team Campus Watch: “Law schools don’t give any attention to entrepreneurship as a career prospect. Period,” says Aakanksha Bhola, a student of the Army Institute of Law (AIL), Mohali. While the...
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How Many Justify Not Letting The ‘Maid’ Use The Toilet In Their Home
By Nitya Sriram: How many of us have had to think twice before using the bathroom? Whether it is at home or at work, it’s simple – if we need to answer nature’s call, we instinctively head to the...
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‘Being Original Is Frowned Upon’: An App Developer Opens Up About His Challenges
By Akshit Rungta: When my business partner and I started our mobile app development company three years ago, we didn’t have much knowledge about the app industry in India. Once we came back from the...
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Despite Being Perfectly Healthy, I’m Forced To Wear Adult Diapers To Work
By Jolly Mohan: For the last 29 years, answering nature’s call has been one of my biggest struggles – because finding an “accessible toilet” in our country is like finding a needle in a haystack. When...
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‘You’re Gay, Right?’: How My High School Bully Nearly Outed Me
Editor’s note: Our educational institutes have a longstanding culture of silence around the discrimination faced by young people who identify as queer. Youth Ki Awaaz and CREA, a leading feminist human...
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4 Incredible Indians Who Went Out Of Their Way To Save Road Accident Victims
India has the dubious ‘honour’ of being number one in the world in terms of road accidents; a number which translates to something like 400 deaths a day, 17 deaths an hour! In many of these cases,...
View ArticleHow Domestic Workers Are Denied Access To Toilets They Clean
Meena*, a part-time domestic worker in South Delhi, begins working at 7 am every day. Well into her 50s, she is employed by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation to sweep roads and collect household...
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This Indian Couple Figured How To Help Thousands Of Rural Entrepreneurs With...
Adversity often leaves a person with one of these two choices – lose hope and surrender, or find the courage to change things. 31-year old Jayashree – a mother to three young boys – had borne the brunt...
View ArticleWhy I Chose Not To Give Money To The Young Beggar
“Paise de do. Mere Maa nahi, Mere Papa nahi.” (Give me money. I don’t have a mother. I don’t have a father.) I had just got down at the Sabarmati Railway Station after a 15-hour journey from Delhi to...
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This Muslim Feminist Uses Her Powerful Writing To Shut Down Online Haters
“Go back to Pakistan.” The nine-year-old me was stunned to hear this coming out of a classmate’s mouth as we ran around in the playground during lunch break. Now, almost two decades since, I see...
View ArticleThe Dark Side Of Entrepreneurship No One Is Talking About
Editor’s Note: In April 2016, a young tech entrepreneur in Hyderabad took his life after a social networking app designed by him, did not take off. In his suicide note, he wrote that he “wanted to go...
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Why I Risked Worsening My UTI Than Pee In University Health Centre’s Loo
By Ankita Prasad: Imagine trying to pee into a tiny vial inside a room, with barely any space to manoeuvre. That’s exactly what I was expected to do, recently, in a toilet that had ants swarming all...
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‘In The Case Of Dry Toilets, 95% Manual Scavengers Are Women’: A Revealing...
Ashif Shaikh was selected for the Ashoka Fellowship in 2016. But such recognition was not always the case in his life. Born into a Dalit Muslim family, Shaikh faced discrimination both, in Madrasas and...
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12 Things To Keep In Mind Before Starting A Business
I’ve started more businesses and explored than I’d care to admit in my 18-plus years of entrepreneurship (some didn’t work out!). In my experience, it’s a bit like driving through a heavy mist where...
View Article2016 में दिखा महिलाओं का दम, क्यूंकि हम नहीं हैं किसी से कम
2016 अपने आखिरी दौर में है। लेकिन यह साल अपनी बेहतरीन फिल्मों और कंटेंट के लिए अगले साल भी चर्चा में बना रहेगा। यह वर्ष फिल्म इंडस्ट्री में महिला सशक्तिकरण से जुड़े मुद्दों को उजागर करने के लिए सराहा...
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