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Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker
It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.
Unnao accident witness claims murder bid on self
Awadhesh Singh says he was attacked by a truck the same way that the Unnao rape case survivor was attacked in July this year
Here today, gone tomorrow: Where is Nithyananda hiding?
Even as Nithyananda live streams his sermon, MEA says they have no information on him
MP’s ‘Padman’: Villager sets up sanitary pad manufacturing unit
His factory now employs 15 women who also raise awareness about menstrual hygiene
Assam gov’t makes sanitary napkins mandatory in factories
The decision was taken in the Assam cabinet meeting, chaired by CM Sarbananda Sonowal, to promote women’s hygiene
In Odisha’s Residential Schools For Tribal Girls, Education Comes At A Cost
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UP’s dis-honourable dad kills daughter for loving the ‘wrong’ man
22-year-old woman killed over relationship with a man who belonged to the same caste in a crime curiously dubbed ‘honour’ killing
Sabarimala: Male devotee nurturing unholy thoughts is ‘unfit’ to visit Lord Ayyappa shrine
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Assam tea women workers bear the heaviest burdens: A double marginalization
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India’s Microenterprises Can Spur Jobs, Gender Equity If They Scale Up: Study
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A Look into the Kerala Double POCSO-Suicide Case
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Media
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The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
Environment
Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts
Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.
Labour
Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces
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