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How My Piece On YKA Got My Workplace To Make Washrooms More Accessible
By Jolly Mohan: Writing about your most intimate experiences is not an easy thing, and takes some guts. But if it helps people change the way they think, I believe it is totally worth it. With this...
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This Entrepreneur Figured How To Turn Waste Into Stunning Fashion
By Kriti Tula: As a young design student pursuing my internship at various export houses, I noticed that tonnes of “export quality” fabric was going to waste, every day. Only 75-80% of the material...
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‘Filthy Toilets, No Water, Cobwebs’: Doctor Reveals Reality About Public...
“I have seen filthy toilets, no water, shabby buildings practically falling apart, cobwebs, lab equipment and drugs strewn about [in India’s primary health centres],” shares Dr. Vandana Prasad,...
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Threatened For Speaking Up For Minorities, How I Stood Up To Online Bullies
By Paroma Ray: In March of 2015, my college had organised a talk by Ms Christine Lagarde, the then IMF Chief. As a student of political science, looking at things from a critical perspective becomes...
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Why I Think Calling Kids On India’s Streets ‘Chotu’ Is Not Okay
Recently, one of Bollywood’s favourite couples, ‘Saifeena’, fell from grace in the eyes of their fans, because they named their son Taimur, incidentally also the moniker of a ruthless medieval...
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How An Entrepreneur Is Using Technology To Ensure Kids Find Great Tutors!
My entrepreneurial journey started by accident, quite literally. I was looking for a credible skating and dance tutor for my daughter. But the process of finding a reliable tutor was cumbersome, as...
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We Asked Our Youth What They Want From The Govt. Here’s What They Had To Say
With half of India’s billion plus population under 25 years of age, there is little doubt that it is the country’s youth that holds the key to the country’s success. Assertive, aspirational and raring...
View ArticleA Member Of The Housekeeping Staff Shares How “Educated People” Behave
So I walked into the washroom at work, that day. Radhamma, a middle-aged housekeeping staff, looked tensed and ready to breakdown. She kept mumbling something under her breath, I could not hear what...
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Lessons From A Woman Entrepreneur On Juggling A Start-Up, Kids And A...
Having grown up in an environment where, on the one hand, business ideas were continually discussed and debated, and on the other, girls and women were consciously kept away from decision-making in the...
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9 Individuals Who’re Shaping The Future Of Work For Indian Millennials
Last Monday ended on a note when I felt both exhausted and content with work. What followed next was an overwhelming realization – I was a month away from completing 2 and half years at my first job....
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India’s workforce comprises over 780 million individuals under the age of 35, a demographic that spends about one third of their lives at work. Yet, we rarely speak up about whether the work we do...
View ArticleFrom Sexual Predators To Leopard Attacks: Why Uttarakhand’s Women Are...
By Rakesh Agrawal for Youth Ki Awaaz: For the last two years, 56-year-old Kamla Devi of Batoli village, Rudraprayag district, heads every morning for the forest to fetch oak leaves for her cows, with a...
View ArticleFrom Sexism To Working Conditions: All That You Missed At The #FutureOfWork...
With 51% of India’s population being under the age of 25, issues pertinent to the youth could not have been more important. This means more young people are entering the workforce than ever before, a...
View ArticleHow An Entrepreneur Is Building An E-Commerce Enterprise In War-Torn Kashmir
26-year old Muheet Mehraj attended his Master’s course for exactly five days, before realising his heart lay somewhere else. All of 20, and itching for social change, the youngster soon dropped out to...
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Dear Women Techies, Don’t Apologise For Your Career Choices Or Gender!
We recently saw surreal images of a woman parliamentarian breastfeeding her baby while answering a question in the Icelandic parliament. “I could choose to yank her off and leave her crying with...
View ArticleReality: No Tech Jobs For Engineers In India
I had passed my B.E. in the year 2012. Since then, I have been struggling to get a technical job in India. I had completed an engineering degree from one of the top engineering colleges in Mumbai, part...
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6 Indian Millennials On What Working With Startups Is Really Like
There’s a changing trend in the kind of people flocking to work with startups in India, these days. Says Varun Mayya, CEO of Jobspire, a company that has, for the last three years, been helping job...
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While Govt. Snores, How Millions Of Indian Street Children Have No Place To...
With the sun perched firmly above his head, 10-year-old Shahjahan* is busy scrounging for bottles and plastic on the top of the several metres high Ghazipur landfill site. He goes to school, he says,...
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Gruelling Hours, No Savings Or Safety: The Life Of A Construction Worker
On January 2, Babu Sahab, a construction worker fell to his death after falling from the scaffolding of an under-construction building in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar. Sahab allegedly sought safety gear...
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Dear Online Bully, Your Rape Threats Cannot Silence The Activist Within Me
I am a social activist by profession and my job is to help uplift the lives of acid attack survivors. Through our Facebook community “Make Love Not Scars” we have been able to raise much awareness...
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