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Why Talk Of ‘Equality’ When Women Are Left To Struggle For A Roof Above Their...
By Dr. Indu Prakash Singh: Sustainable development is not possible without inclusion of women and ensuring their right to housing. Special housing schemes for women of all income groups, loan...
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Exploitative Labour Over Education? – Is This What The Govt. Wants For Our...
By Shinjini Devbarman: In what could be a regressive step for our country, the Modi Government has approved a proposal for an amendment in the Child Labour Prohibition Act which will put children back...
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In A Remote Maharashtra Village, Women Are Adding On To Their Incomes In This...
By Anwesha Dhar: When I was a child, we used to have Art and Craft classes in school. I was quite terrible at it – In fact, I was one of the very few kids in the history of mankind who managed to...
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Runaway Child Brides And Annulled Marriages – Reversing An ‘Auspicious’ Trend
By Anwesha Dhar: At the first glance, Neelu is like any other child. A student of class four, she is bustling with life and energy that would surely brighten anyone’s day. She could grow up to be...
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These ‘Sadak Chhaps’ Taught Delhi An Important Lesson
By Amit Sengupta: Delhi’s streets buzzed with ‘Haq Banta Hai’ over the last month. A team of diverse theatre and street play personalities gathered at several places around Delhi’s popular locations...
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How ‘A Home Of Her Own’ Changed The Life Of This Woman
By Mehernaz Patel: The focus on gender in the Indian media has escalated quickly. The plus side to this is that it has been given national attention far longer than most social concerns. But still,...
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Why I Quit My Corporate Job To Teach English In An Odisha Village
By Sunayana Chatrapathy: It was the library period for class 5. The children were all lined up as the librarian distributed books from a pile. I happened to notice Santosh who kept sending others...
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“On My Second Day At School, A Kid Asked Me What Caste I Was”
By Karthik Shankar: I remember being fraught on my first day of school in Chennai. I wasn’t attending one of those cosmopolitan 'do it yourself' schools. I was enrolled in arguably Chennai’s most...
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A Few Machines Is All It Took To Change How A Village In Gujarat Works
By Anwesha Dhar: Rural Gujarat –An abundance of bamboo –A set bamboo trade - And some amazing handiwork; looks like a good enough setting? Definitely does. On picturing this village and its people...
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“My Husband’s Family Deemed Me Impure”: The ‘Curse’ Of Giving Birth To A...
[envoke_twitter_link]Is giving birth to a daughter in India really a curse?[/envoke_twitter_link] Ask Sumitra (name changed) from Jaipur, 22, who gave birth to a daughter when she was 19 and was...
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10 Things You Need To Know About The RTE Act
1. It Is Compulsory And Free! Compulsory – It is obligatory for the Government to provide free and compulsory elementary education, up to Class 8th, to each and every child in India in a neighbourhood...
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5 Glaring Examples Of How Bollywood Movies Take Gender Equality A Step Back
By Kanika Katyal: In the society as we know it, women are reduced to nothing less than objects of transaction between the father and the husband. As Luce Irigaray states, women are exchanged as...
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They Warned Him From Entering This Village, He Went Ahead To Revive It
By Varun Sharma: "Are you insane? Who takes a gap year during their Masters? Don’t waste your degree like this!" These were some of the responses last year, when I decided to take a break from my...
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“Custom-Made, Limited Edition And Unique”: But Are Schools Ready To Accept Me?
By Arati Nair: "I am special and one of a kind and unlike the others. In short, I am custom-made, limited edition and unique!" An emphatic sentiment echoed by the students of Sankalp, a school for...
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Finding A Solution, Not Just Giving Hope: Anneka’s Story Of Change
We all talk about being a part of change, but when an opportunity comes by, how many of us actually go ahead and take it up?! Having just finished her B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Jaipur,...
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What Happens To About 240 Million Girls And Their Partners When They Are Wed...
By Aditi Saraswat: What do we do to a child, every time we marry him or her off? Yes, 'we' do to a 'child.' I use the word 'we' because let us stop being hypocritical for once and own up that every...
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No More Girls: Why Do We Really Want Only Sons In This Country?
By Shambhavi Saxena: "I hope it’s a boy. I just hope it’s a boy. No more girls, please. No more girls." These haunting lines were delivered by Iman Ali in the 2007 film 'Khuda Kay Liye', praying for...
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#TalkSexuality: Because ‘Sex-ed’ Classes Taught Us Nothing, And Porn Is Only...
By Kirrat Sachdeva: Talking about the need for Comprehensive Sexuality Education has never been a drawing room discussion. While most people avoid bringing up anything remotely related to sex, the...
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Chitthi Aayi Hai: PM Modi Gets 5 Lakh Postcards, Find Out Why
By Sanjana Sanghi: With one of the largest populations of people living under extreme poverty, 1.4 million children between the ages of 6-11 years out of school, an exploding population, and frequent...
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Missing Mums: The Thing About #SelfieWithDaughters
By Anugraha Hadke: After my father got to know about the #SelfieWithDaughter campaign trending on social media, he promptly took out his cell phone and took a picture each with my sister and me. I...
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