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जंगल बचाने का अभियान चलाने वाली झारखंड की लेडी टार्ज़न जमुना टुडू
“ये जंगल और जंगल के वृक्ष मेरे भाई की तरह हैं। मैं इन्हें किसी को काटने नहीं दूंगी।” सर्वोच्च नागरिक सम्मान पद्मश्री से सम्मानित जमुना टुडू द्वारा कही गई यह बात आज के दौर में बेदह प्रासंगिक है। 13...
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हर किसी की ज़िन्दगी में एक टर्निंग प्वॉइंट आता है, जो कई मायनों में उसके सोचने के नज़रिये और ज़िन्दगी के प्रति शिद्दत को बढ़ा देता है। मेरे साथ भी कुछ ऐसा ही उस वक्त हुआ, जब आज से 10 साल पहले मैंने...
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Now I Rely On My Fingertips For Pleasure And Its Empowering
Megha had no idea how women get to an orgasm. She turned to her friend Vinita who taught her the ‘touchy touchy’. Megha tells Love Matters’ writer Arpit Chikkara how she learnt to ‘help herself’ with...
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The Brain Drain Cess Reeks Of Bad Governance And Will Not Sit Well With The NRIs
I am well aware of the so-called “brain drain” situation in the country but what I didn’t know was, this phenomenon had been researched as far back as in 1974. What this amounts to is, brain drain had...
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As told to Kumar Prince Mukherjee: “हमारे समाज में कई ऐसी रिवायते हैं, जो आज के दौर में भी खासकर कम उम्र में ही लड़कियों पर थोप दी जाती है। कम उम्र में लड़कियों की शादी करा देना उन्हीं रिवायतों में से...
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Build Your Tribe Of Girls You Can Count On, Who Will Stand By You
One of the most beautiful stages of life is stepping over the threshold between childhood and youth. It is also the most delicate period when getting the right guidance can make all the difference....
View ArticleFinally, A Solution For The Bhrashtachaar-Mukt Bharat Everyone’s Talking About
India, a country with extensive diversity, is the largest country to follow the democratic form of governance. Being the largest country to follow this form of governance, the country is bound to have...
View ArticleBrain Drain Cess: A Fair Deal Or A Retrograde Flow?
It’s been many years since I started reading newspapers with all their political gimmicks, varied opinions and columns on scientific advancement, giving my mind a daily dose of knowledge. But what...
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My Childhood In Arunachal Pradesh: Marbles, Dancing, And Borrowing The Latest...
In the year of 1972, families from different villages of Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh, were approached to send their young daughters to a new school, called Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Girls’...
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In 14 Photos: The Dreams Of Street Children That No One Will Tell You About
By Vicky Roy: I ran away from home at a very young age. I had nowhere to go and landed up crying on a railway platform in New Delhi. It was then that my story really began. I befriended some ragpicker...
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As A Sex-Worker’s Daughter, How I Struggled To Get Admitted Into A School
Coming from a small village in Andhra Pradesh, I never thought that I would end up living in the bustling city of Mumbai. Like many mothers, mine also dreamt that my siblings and I would become...
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ब्यूटीशियन की ट्रेनिंग के ज़रिये महिलाओं को आत्मनिर्भर बनाने वाली कामिनी
जिनके हौसले बुलंद होते हैं, उन्हें जीवन की तमाम चुनौतियों से निकलना भी बखूबी आता है। जीवन की परेशानियों के लड़कर जो आगे बढ़ता है, मंज़िल भी उसी को मिलती है। इन पंक्तियों पर फिट बैठती हैं बिहार के...
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Meet The 21-Year-Old Fighting To End Child Marriage In Her Community In Odisha
Meet Jhulima Mallick. At 21 years, she is a first time voter in 2019. Jhulima grew up in a poor agrarian family from Bandudi Village in the Kandhamal district of Odisha. The community is small and...
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I Relive My Journey Of Accepting I Have HIV Every Time I Talk To Others
NACO Report 2017 estimates over 2.14 million people with HIV live in India. As elections sweep across the country and political engines get at each others’ throats – this is a vote bank easily ignored....
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I Bled For 3 Months Continuously, But Doctors Refused To Believe It Was...
Submitted anonymously: We all know – or many of us who menstruate do – that sometimes women’s periods skip a month or two. It’s common and mostly harmless. We’re aware that exercising too much during...
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How A 13-Year-Old Noticed The Gap In Our System
My name is Shivani. I am 13 years old and I live in a room under the Jasola flyover in Delhi with my parents and four brothers, 2 older and 2 younger than me. I love acting on stage, dancing, lunch...
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Explained: Why The Women’s Reservation Bill Is A Crucial Tool For Gender Justice
Promises of gender equality or women empowerment have been one of the most heated premises of the ongoing parliamentary elections. Different political parties have promised various schemes for the...
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‘That’ Biology Chapter: Sex And Its Political Implications
According to recent reports by the United Nations Population Fund, India’s population is estimated to surpass China and become the world’s most populous country by the early 2020s. Along with this,...
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For Assam’s Adivasi Girls, Sexual Violence And Unwanted Pregnancies Are...
Sandhya Topno, a 16-year-old girl from Charaideo, Assam, was seen carrying her uterus tied around her waist with a piece of cloth. Pregnant at the tender age of 15, she had a complicated delivery, due...
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What Being Abused Did To My Sexuality
I didn’t really have much of a sexual identity till I was an adult. Before I was abused by my partner, all I’d really done was making out. My ideas of sexuality were heavily influenced by the Mill...
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