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I Am An Artist In The Making And This Is My Story
By Tanvi Pal: I am a budding director and a classical dancer, in short, an artist in the making. While working towards a new script based on the lives of artists, I randomly started typing “Being an...
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When Delhi’s Youth Got Its Groove On For A Cause
By Eleonora Fanari: Although the motto “Unity In Diversity” has been the driving message for unifying and integrating the multiplicity of India, exclusion and marginalization have continuously...
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Health Check: 4 Reasons To Have Another Cup Of Coffee
By Clare Collins: Some like it hot, some like it iced, and some just don't like it at all. Until recently, coffee was on the list of habits to break if you really wanted to be healthy. [caption...
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How To Increase Your Chances Of Getting A Job Offer After Your Internship
By Samyak Dutta: Having completed three internships so far during my undergrad years and having received a pre-placement offer from the most recent company I interned with, I have attempted to jot...
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“It’s As If They Don’t Exist”: Bangladeshi Woman Reveals A Shocking Negligence
By Monica Islam: Razia (name changed) developed autism at the time of her birth due to medical negligence. At the rural clinic in Bangladesh where she was born, the nurses fed her at least two...
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“John Nash Was A World Class Troll”– Student Recalls His Week With The Math...
By Jon Hersh: In 2007 I spent a week with John Nash in Barcelona. Ostensibly I was assisting with a paper he was writing (The agencies method for coalition formation in experimental games) but in...
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Ek Saal Modi Sarkar: Separating Fact From Fantasy
By Ali Abbas: While majority of the media may project it as a glorious one year for Modi government, as a layman belonging to minority community and working with an NGO, I fear we are heading towards...
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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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“Call Me Whore, Call Me Slut, Call Me Hijra, Call Me Eunuch, I Don’t Care”
By Divyaroop Ananda: Today I was going to American school of Bombay for choir practice (yes, I’m a part of India’s first gay choir group, Rainbow voices). On my way, while I was in an auto rickshaw,...
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Why I Don’t Believe In Piku’s Feminism
By Aditi Saraswat: Piku celebrates a woman. It celebrates her sense of independence: sexual, emotional or financial, in that order. Piku’s father Bhaskor opines, "marriage without purpose is a low...
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Is India Ready For A Surge In Hindu Immigrants From Other Countries?
By Monica Islam: If news reports are to be believed, there is currently an influx of refugee immigrants, especially of Hindu, Sikh, and Buddhist origins, into the state of India under the leadership...
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OK If Child Labour Done For ‘Family’ Says Nobel Laureate, But Isn’t That The...
By Shivani Nag: Bill Haywood, leader of the industrial workers in the U.S. once said, "The worst thief is he who steals the playtime of children." Unfortunately, in case of India today, it is the...
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Dil Dosti Selfie: Friendship In Today’s World Needs A Reboot
By Sumrit Shahi: So there I was clubbing sober, last Saturday night, sipping on my Red Bull even as the world around me got wasted, one shot at a time. Bored out of my wits, I ended up doing what I...
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Mindless On The Maoists – Lessons From Modi’s ‘Terrible Speech’ In Dantewada
By Latha Jishnu: Note: This article has been republished from Down To Earth. Among the amazing things that Narendra Modi has said and done in the past year as the Prime Minister of India must rank his...
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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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Pellet Guns Are ‘Inaccurate And Indiscriminate’, Why Are They Still Being...
By Monica Islam: Imagine going for tuitions and landing up in a hospital bed instead because dozens of pellets have hit the areas around your eyes, and nearly hundred pellets have pierced your skull,...
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“We Were Killed Because Of Our Ideas And Beliefs”: On Karachi Terror Attacks...
By Sohail Muhammad Ali: I am nothing but a corpse now, a wounded body in a bus which is present near Al- Azhar Garden. I drew my last breath five minutes ago as my heart stopped beating, my face, my...
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Why Israel Matters To India (And Modi)
By Chaitanya Mallapur: When Narendra Modi makes a trip to Israel sometime later this year, he will be the first Indian Prime Minister to visit, formalising a relationship often conducted behind closed...
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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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I Was Dubbed A ‘Medical Failure': My Journey Through Schizophrenia
By Dr. Lavanya Seshasayee: I present a narrative of my journey through schizophrenia towards recovery. Primarily, this revisits the traditional roles of psychiatrists and patients, via an empowerment...
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