With The Delhi Re-Election Approaching, Here’s How AAP Is Trying To Get It’s...
By Prakruti Maniar: The ‘it’s complicated’ relationship between AAP and Delhi has gone on for far too long. With assembly elections seemingly imminent, we evaluate the strategy that AAP has been...
View ArticleThe Belligerent Bilawal And His Pipe Dream Of Taking All Of Kashmir To Pakistan
By Guru Prakash: Apparently the presumed President-in-waiting of Pakistan has made up his mind to face the electorate in the general elections of 2018. Given the fragile and turbulent political history...
View ArticleIn Pictures: How A Student Movement From India Gained Solidarity Across The...
By Durjoy Choudhary: It’s been almost 3 weeks since the police brutally attacked peacefully protesting students at Jadavpur University. A lot has transpired since. The Vice Chancellor Abhijit...
View ArticleThe Malala-Affair Through The Eyes Of Adnan Rashid: Geopolitics, Misogyny &...
Saumyata Joshi and Saif Ahmad Khan: Malala Yousafzai, the educational campaigner from Swat valley in Pakistan, came to prominence by writing for BBC Urdu about life under Taliban. In her writings...
View ArticleThe Politics Of The ‘LoC Nobel': Another Step Towards ‘Aman Ki Asha’?
By Anshul Kumar Pandey: Perhaps the most anticipated announcement of the whole year is that of the Nobel Prize. Awarded in the disciplines of Chemistry, Physics, Literature, Medicine, Economics and...
View Article“Indian Ladies, Own Who You Are!”– A Letter From A European Woman In India
By Simona Kalikova: “I wish my skin was as fair as yours”/ “I would kill for your figure – especially for your narrow hips”/“I want my eyes to be as blue as yours”/“Your are so pretty, why can’t I be...
View ArticleIn The Heart Of Darkness: Why Our Approach Towards Gender Based Violence...
By Preetam Sengupta: Alas! We have lost our hearts – not to love, but to misogyny and bigotry, and to every other form of degraded thinking that an abjectly insecure patriarchal system keeps drilling...
View Article“Post Suicide Note, I Survived”, A Shocking Experience Of How Our Society...
Submitted Anonymously: Last week, I was on a hospital bed getting my stomach washed. A few hours before I had taken a lethal quantity of tablets to end my life. Luckily, I survived to tell my story....
View ArticleWhat Comes To Your Mind When You Hear The Word ‘Periods’? #5DaysOfDignity
By Youth Alliance: Take a moment today. Here, right now, just stop. We, as a nation, in a much celebrating manner recognize childbirth as a woman’s domain. Why not then, can we embrace the fact that...
View ArticleThe Right To Information Act Is Under Threat Again, And This Time It Is The...
By Anjali Bhardwaj, Amrita Johri, Bhanupriya Rao: The Right to Information Act is under threat once again! This time due to the Government’s inaction in appointing the Chief Information Commissioner in...
View ArticleWith The Delhi Re-Election Approaching, Here’s How AAP Is Trying To Get It’s...
By Prakruti Maniar: The ‘it’s complicated’ relationship between AAP and Delhi has gone on for far too long. With assembly elections seemingly imminent, we evaluate the strategy that AAP has been...
View ArticleThe Belligerent Bilawal And His Pipe Dream Of Taking All Of Kashmir To Pakistan
By Guru Prakash: Apparently the presumed President-in-waiting of Pakistan has made up his mind to face the electorate in the general elections of 2018. Given the fragile and turbulent political history...
View ArticleIn Pictures: How A Student Movement From India Gained Solidarity Across The...
By Durjoy Choudhary: It’s been almost 3 weeks since the police brutally attacked peacefully protesting students at Jadavpur University. A lot has transpired since. The Vice Chancellor Abhijit...
View ArticleWhy Death Penalty Is The Symptom Of A Violent Culture And Not A Solution
By Deepak Mehta: “To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice” - Desmond Tutu “What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!” – Victor Hugo, author of Les...
View ArticleLGBT Or Not, Why Delhi Queer Pride Is For Everyone!
By Akhil Katyal: I will give you two big reasons to come join the Delhi Queer Pride this 30th November. One, that there is something dark upon us– a climate of bigotry that is targeting series of folks...
View ArticleAn Open Later To The Environment Minister: Why We Need To Protect The Western...
By Rachita Taneja: To, Prakash Javadekar Minister of State – Environment, Forests and Climate Change Government of India We are writing to express a deep concern over the future of the Western Ghats...
View Article‘Hysteria': Of Feminism, Gender Equality And The Collective Outrage Against...
By Prerana Y.S.K: In India, a woman is raped every 32 minutes. A minor girl is abducted every 36 minutes. A girl is trafficked every 46 minutes. A woman is sexually harassed every 12 minutes. 21 women...
View Article“I Quit My Job And Even Terminated A Pregnancy For Him, And Then He...
By Oxfam India: I screamed and burst into tears, “You don’t understand my feelings. What kind of solutions are you suggesting?” The counselor on the other side of the table however sat calmly, unfazed...
View Article‘My Friend Was Gang Raped By A Group Of Girls': Turning The Gaze On Male Rape
By Anshul Mittal: My friend was gang raped by a group of girls and no he didn’t enjoy it. Yes, you read it right. However unbelievable it may sound, but men are also raped, they are also sexually...
View Article[VIDEO] Journalist Neha Dixit Talks About ‘The Courage To Tell A Hidden...
Youth Ki Awaaz recently organized ‘CONVERGE‘ – a series of talks ‘for those who give a damn’, on a diverse range of subjects from politics and society to entrepreneurship and writing. The first speaker...
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