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Can Money As An Incentive Change How India Thinks About Its Daughters?
By Dr. T.V. Shekhar: Since centuries, India has experienced gender discrimination and the fundamental reason for son preference is because of economic interpretation by parents on the perceived...
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‘Talk Dirty To Me': Why There’s No Shame In Sexting Your Partner
By Rohini Banerjee for Youth Ki Awaaz: In today’s age of growing dependency on technology and social media, even our most intimate conversations are conducted online. Hence, it is no surprise that...
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Should Delhi’s Pollution Levels Rise Any More Next Diwali, The Future Looks...
By Shruti Sonal: Before every Diwali, newspapers scream the ill effects caused by crackers, both in terms of environmental pollution and health hazards. Perhaps because I started reading newspapers...
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What 18 Year Old Anoyara Is Doing To Save Trafficked Children Is An Example...
By Shambhavi Saxena: Many of us grew up around children we knew were very different from us. We knew they would be running errands when we were sleeping in on weekends, we knew they would be tapping...
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Thought You Could Breathe Free #DiwaliKeBaad? Umm…Think Again
By Ankita Mukhopadhyay: I have always suffered from breathing problems, and during Diwali, they have persistently increased. Every Diwali means a bout of sneezing, coughing and an accompanying...
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These Women Never Thought They’d Leave Home, Look How They’re Smashing...
By Anugraha Hadke: Refusing to be shunned as an 'inauspicious widow', Munni Devi is an active member of her village’s theatre group that holds street plays to start conversations on women’s issues....
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It’s Both Shocking And Shameful That 1.3 Million Children Don’t Live Past The...
By David Oot: Since 1990, and despite significant increases in the global population, the annual number of maternal and child deaths has dropped by nearly 50 percent. UNICEF estimates that 100 million...
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YKA Investigation: The Promise Of Toilets In Every School Stinks!
By Abhimanyu Singh for Youth Ki Awaaz: In his very first Independence Day speech last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it amply clear that he wanted a clean India which would be free, most...
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When A Child Tells You They’ve Been Sexually Abused, How You React Next...
By Lipi Mehta: The first time my parents and I spoke about child sexual abuse, I was 18. At that time, I honestly wondered what had taken us so long to have this conversation. Well, just like...
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7 Ways In Which Being ‘Manly’ Oppresses Men As Much As It Oppresses Women
By YKA Staff: India is a country steeped in centuries of patriarchy. A country where traditions and rituals, as well as our upbringing ensures that there is a clear power-dynamic in the way men and...
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It’s Messed Up How Rambo, G.I.Joe And Others Have Shaped Our Idea Of A ‘Real...
By Shambhavi Saxena: [envoke_twitter_link]Can pop culture cause violent behaviour in men?[/envoke_twitter_link] In a Time magazine article, James Poniewozik argued that it cannot program or direct...
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I Think Porn Can Be Entertaining, But Please Don’t Use It For Sex Education!
By Anonymous: My science teacher who taught us the chapter on reproduction in high school was an old man. And although I was studying in a Hindu missionary school, he did supplement the chapter with...
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When I Was Growing Up, ‘Being A Man’ Meant Ogling At Girls, Rating Their...
Submitted anonymously: Growing up is a hard thing to do. With most of us, there is usually a specific frame of time that we remember as the moment we knew things were changing. For me, this defining...
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Here Is The Danger That ‘Hum Do Humare Do’ Poses To Daughters In India
By Anugraha Hadke: India’s 1.25 billion strong population is showing no signs of slowing down yet, and this consistent increase in numbers has been a cause for concern for decades. The impact this is...
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The Hypocrisy Behind The ‘Swachh Delhi’ App That No One Is Talking About
By Abhishek Jha: If you move around Delhi, the one advertisement that you are bound to notice informs you about the Swachh Delhi App, which allows any smartphone-savvy person like me to ask the...
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The Answers To These 3 Questions Say So Much About What Society Thinks Of...
By Lipi Mehta: Growing up in India, I was no stranger to how my role was fixed in society as that of 'being a girl'. I was expected to have long hair and dress in a certain way and I remember how...
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I Have Sex With ‘No Strings Attached’, And Here’s Why There’s Nothing Wrong...
Submitted anonymously: [caption id="attachment_61709" align="alignleft" width="414"] For representation only[/caption] [envoke_twitter_link]It took me a really long time to admit that I loved having...
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What We As A Society Do To A TB Patient Is Far Worse Than What The Disease...
By Lipi Mehta: [caption id="attachment_62065" align="alignleft" width="408"] Image source: Operation ASHA[/caption] On a hot August morning in 2014, I reached Dharavi in Mumbai at around 11 am. I...
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These 8 Things Give Us Hope That 2016 Will Be Much Better Than 2015. Do You...
By Artika Raj: While party poopers gonna be a poopin’, we do believe that the beginning of every new year brings with it the hope that this year is going to be different! Whether it be the resolution...
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Reality Of Clean India? 1000s Still Forced To Pick Up Human Excreta: An...
By Abhimanyu Singh: Last year in March, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark verdict concerning the plight of manual scavengers in the country. Acting on a writ petition filed by the Safai...
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