Here is why it’s important to address the question of caste and religion in India
Recognising caste, religion, or ethnicity in crime reporting is not about creating divisions but about capturing the full impact of the violence.
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Breaking the Silence: India’s Hidden War Against Women
The war against women may be silent, but the response doesn’t have to be. It’s time to break the silence, together, and reclaim the streets, the spaces, and the freedom that belongs to every woman in India.
When Will Women In India Get Freedom From Fear?
It is deplorable that after twelve years of that Nirbhaya case, the women of India are still compelled to be in the same loop of violence.
Review of the book Ambedkar, Gandhi, and Patel: The Making of India’s Electoral System
Each democracy must have elections, and this book follows Ambedkar as he fights to protect the rights of “untouchables” in that fight. This book reveals why Ambedkar sacrificed everything to protect the rights of the oppressed through adult right to vote and electoral representation.
Casteism thrives in elite schools of India – Suicide of Darshan Solanki
“When he came last month, he told me, and mom-dad, that there’s caste discrimination happening there. His friends came to know that he belongs to a scheduled caste, so their behaviour towards him changed. They stopped talking to him, they stopped hanging out with him” – Jhanvi Solank, sister of Darshan Solanki On February 12, …
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On International women’s day, celebrating the legacy of fierce feminist Tarabai Shinde
The publication of “Stri Purush Tulana” was met with a fierce backlash from the male-dominated literary establishment. Tarabai was accused of blasphemy and immorality, and her book was banned. Despite this opposition, Tarabai continued to advocate for women’s rights and spoke out against the injustices that women faced.
10 Books To Help You Learn About Climate Change in 2023
We’ve rounded up 10 of the most essential texts about climate change to get you started—some old, some new, all urgently clear-eyed about the problems facing our planet.
Nellie Massacre: 40 years of injustice
Thousands of Muslims were killed in the Nellie area of Assam in broad daylight on February 18th, 1983. Their only crime was that they exercised their democratic right to vote.
The Curse of “Unlimited”
Life is beautiful when it is balanced. And the balance could only be achieved when human leave and comes out of the labyrinth of the greed of unlimited. It can only be possible when human starts understanding that the resources are limited and they do not inherit instead they are borrowed from the next coming generations. As the popular American Indian proverb says “We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children.”
Odisha’s ‘rich’ Keonjhar has the highest number of stunted, underweight children and anaemic pregnant women
There are very few districts in India that can match the financial muscle of Keonjhar in Odisha. Yet, the district suffers the ignominy of having the highest number of stunted, underweight children and anaemic pregnant women among the 30 districts in the State.