Meet The 14-Year-Old Gully Boy Of Delhi Who Raps To Create Change
If there’s anything for certain, it’s that there’s no dearth of inspiration to be found in the India’s gullies. Case in point: Sumit Kumar, a 14-year-old resident of Delhi’s Kusumpur village. The eight...
View ArticleClik here to view.
हिंसा खत्म करने के लिए पुलिस तक लोगों की पहुंच सहज बनानी पड़ेगी
किसी भी आम व्यक्ति के मन में पुलिस और पुलिस स्टेशन को लेकर काफी धारणाएं होती हैं और यह कहना गलत नहीं होगा कि उनकी छवि सकारात्मक कम और नकारात्मक ज़्यादा होती है। अक्सर हम अपने घरों में बड़े बुज़ुर्गो को...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7 Really Clichéd Things People Need To Stop Doing On The Roads. Stat.
Road accidents in India is a significant problem. With about 1.47 lakh incidents of road-related deaths just in 2017, the situation seems to only get worse. But is it just the government’s/concerned...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Reality Of Commercial Sexual Exploitation In India
By Sarah Jacob “Let’s settle for Rs 5,000 – na tera na mera.” The mustached man shook hands with another man. He had just sold a minor girl into sex work. He felt proud of his bargaining skills. He’d...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Your Father Died In A Car-Accident’, This Still Haunts Me
In what language do you tell a 15-year-old that his father has died in a car accident? How do you explain to him whose fault it was? How do you plan to tell him that it was either the over-speeding...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Civic Sense And Government Efforts Must Go Hand In Hand To Improve Road...
27 years ago, my maternal grandfather died in a road accident. 18 years ago, my mother’s cousin was killed by a motorcycle. Between 2007 and 2018, my father, who is a doctor, reported that severe...
View ArticleStench Of Humanity
This group of people might be able to foresee the results of Swach Bharat campaign better than a multitude of academicians and engineers, without any pie charts and graphs. For them “Ache din ayenge”...
View Article“मेरे साथ हुए यौन शोषण पर बात करने के लिए मेरे घर में जगह नहीं थी”
मेरे आस-पड़ोस में, घर में या किसी रिश्तेदारी में लड़की के पैदा होने पर बहुत बार सुनने को मिलता है कि ‘लक्ष्मी हुई है।’ ऐसा लगता है कि सभी लोग लक्ष्मी की ओट लेकर लड़की के पैदा होने पर मिली निराशा को कम...
View ArticleWomen Sanitation Workers: Symbols Of Continued Marginalization
By Nilanjana Bhattacharjee The inescapable link between occupation and caste, especially the unhappy marriage between sanitation work and Dalit communities, continues to take different forms in India....
View ArticleClik here to view.
घरेलू कामगारों को नीचा समझना कब बंद करेंगे हम?
पिछले साल नेटफ्लिक्स पर रिलीज़ हुई फिल्म “लस्ट स्टोरीज़” के दूसरे चैप्टर में ज़ोया अख्तर ने एक कामवाली बाई का किस्सा दिखाया। गिनती के संवाद के माध्यम से एक कामवाली बाई की ज़िन्दगी की दास्तान को दिखाने...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stench Of Humanity
By Priyanka Rawat The group of people referred to here, might be able to foresee the results of Swacch Bharat campaign better than a multitude of academicians and engineers, without any pie charts and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can We Design Safer Roads?
By Geetam Tiwari The end of the year 2018 saw the launch of the Global Status Report on Road Traffic Safety by the World Health Organisation. The report noted a continued increase in deaths and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘भंगी मुक्त’राज्य बनाने की नीतीश सरकार की कोशिश विफल क्यों हो गई?
पटना में मैला ढोने का काम करने वाली शर्मिला फोन पर बातचीत के दौरान बताती है, “उसका यह काम जाति व्यवस्था के अनुसार निर्धारित है, उसको यह काम नहीं करना था तो उसने घर बदल लिया और दूसरे शहर चली गई, घरेलू...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poem: The Sun Doesn’t Shine On Us All The Same Way
By Divya Ruth Jose A curse! A curse! To be born and be nursed To the sound of chains unbroken The smoke and the dust Dreams turned to rust With hope long forgotten No chance to be heard A slogan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
8 Questions About The Surrogacy Bill That Our Government Needs To Answer
On December 19, 2018, the Lok Sabha passed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016. The Bill was cleared by the Cabinet, and subsequently referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee (Health &...
View ArticleYour Answer To This Question Can Help Shape India’s Future
Nearly 1/3rd of India’s 1.2 billion strong population is made up of children below the age of 18. Yet, issues relating to children are barely voiced in political discourses. With General Elections 2019...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cleaning Brigade In The Land Of Unequal Opportunities
Our country is a land of paradoxes. We are peace-loving, but we have a long history of wars behind us. We put women on the pedestal as goddesses, but do not hesitate to rape them. We are the second...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ugly Reality Of Caste-Based Violence And Discrimination In India
The year was 1996. The elected President of Tamil Nadu’s Melavalavu village council, Murugesan, was targeted by a mob following the elections and the cold-blooded attacks resulted in the death of six...
View ArticleHow We Can Prevent NRIs From Putting Tax Burden On The Poor: MP R.K. Jena
Jagdish Bhagwati, authored a paper in 1974, laying out the theory of brain drain and in 1976, he proposed a revolutionary solution to the problem. The solution was to levy a tax on emigrants from a...
View ArticleBrahminical Patriarchy Has Been Using Women As Pawns To Maintain Power Structure
Last year when Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, posed with a placard ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’, it caused a huge uproar, many claiming that it was casteist, and derogatory towards a certain community,...
View Article