Society
SC order puts 10,000 families in Faridabad at risk
June 21, 2021
Colin Gonsalves, head of HRLN, a law firm that fights for right to housing for the poor, expressed disappointment over the latest order of Supreme Court which refused to grant any relief to the over 10,000 families that have lived for decades in Khori village near Surajkund in Fa...
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Sex Education 101 with Dr Niveditha Manokaran
June 16, 2021
In the country where one of the most famous and oldest erotic textbooks of the world, Kama sutra was written, “sex” and everything around it still remains tabooed. While media coverage in India on any given day remains full of news of several gruesome rapes and hein...
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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: India’s elderly...
June 15, 2021
The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), a national survey conducted by an autonomous organisation of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), found that 1 in 20 people aged 60 or above had experienced ill-treatment in the last year, most often from their own care...
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World Day Against Child Labour: Pandemic paralyses...
June 12, 2021
Thirteen-year-old Muskaan is a very shy and soft-spoken girl. So soft-spoken that one would be tempted incessantly to ask her to repeat herself. But Muskaan, who lives with her parents and 5 other siblings in a slum near Malviya Nagar in New Delhi, is emphatic that chil...
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Indian doctors fear assaults from patients’ fami...
June 10, 2021
In the first few days of June 2021, there have been several reports of healthcare workers including doctors being attacked in hospitals, such as the assault of a doctor and a nurse in a Covid-19 ward in the Hojai district of Assam and an on-duty doctor in West Bengal’s Hooghly ...
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Digital India’s dichotomy: Denying digital disse...
June 9, 2021
In the pre-colonial era, British introduced section 124 (A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) covering sedition to curb the freedom movement and to suppress dissent. The first person to be tried under this law was Jogendra Chandra Bose, editor of a newspaper called Bangobasi, in 1...
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International Sex Workers Day: Invisible, unheard ...
June 2, 2021
“Akka, humari life toh kharaab ho gayi but humare bachchon ki life kharaab nahi honi chahiye, iss dhandhe mei mera bachcha nahi aana chahiye. Kuchh karo! (My life is ruined, but my child should not suffer the same fate, she should not be forced to into this cruel world. Please ...
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Rising unemployment in India’s education sector ...
May 30, 2021
Ever since the pandemic hit the globe and forced closure of schools, several studies have revealed the negative effects of school closures on students. But, here in India, the burden and pressure of school closures and online classes has also been has felt by the teachers, who ar...
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Undocumented cries of children in Covid-ravaged In...
May 28, 2021
Mira and Akriti (names changed), six and four-year-old respectively, run around with their dollhouse and a toy-kitchen set as they cannot decide on what to cook for their make-believe dinner party. With toy kitchen-sets in their hands, they fight with each other as they are unabl...
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Mismanagement of crises has brought down the most ...
May 27, 2021
You have been very vocal on the current social and political issues facing the country. What makes you take up this? “I was always an anti-bully. In school and college, there were bullies who were picking on people; I just don’t know why it came to me instinctively to stop th...
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