Bhanwari Devi, a Dalit woman, employed with the rural development programme of the Rajasthan government, was brutally gangraped in 1992 for trying to stop the prevalent practice of child marriage. This incident highlighted the hazards faced by working women, following which the Supreme Court acknowl...
Day two into the lockdown, a WhatsApp message from our social media guru popped up on my phone as I was about to start my dinner: “Shoko, can you take a video of you playing the piano, then say ‘stay at home’ and a few more words. Keep it within 45 seconds. We need to upload it tonight on TikT...
In 2018, Hemant Soren, the then Executive President, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) who is the current Chief Minister of Jharkhand, in an interaction with media, said, “In the Chaibasa prison, we have come to know of two girls and a man held under trial since 2006. They have never had a hearing in c...
Lajjo lives in a desert village of Rajasthan and is married to a man named Manoj who is an alcoholic. The latter abuses and molests his wife every night. He mocks her for being infertile while it is he who is impotent. The powerful depiction of domestic violence through the character of Lajjo in the...
Facebook’s investment of $5.7 billion for Reliance Jio, which also ranks among the biggest investments by the former suggests a bright business prospect of the social media giant in India. India is the only country other than China with more than one billion population. Incidentally, Fa...
Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excess or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients. There are two broad categories here: the first includes undernutrition. Undernutrition includes stunting, that is low height for age and wasting or low weight for height. There are othe...
On Saturday, July 25, 68-year-old Madhav Narayan Dutta was taken to the Bongoan Sub-divisional hospital in West Bengal due to some respiratory problems. He was admitted to the ward assigned for suspected Covid-19 patients. Later, he was referred to a hospital in Kolkata as his health det...
Pandi, Murugan, Afzal, and Kumar were Tamil labourers who used to work in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh and lived in a nearby park. One night, their lives turned upside down. They were arrested, beaten, and brutally tortured in the police lock up for two weeks, for a theft that they did not commit as the p...
A newlywed in a heart-shaped balloonRising, uplifting, waiting to be poppedA bachelor in his fishbowlSwimming in circles, solitude unlockedA migrant in a darkroomAbandoned and outdatedA labourer in a ketchup bottleSqueezed until the last dropAre you likeA family in a 3BHK terrariumDiscovering boredo...
Savitri Devi, born as Maximiani Portas in 1905 of Greek-English parents, wrote a very thought provoking and profound book called “Impeachment of Man” in 1945 on different religions and their “compassion factor”. She spent 30 years in India undertaking a systematic study of the wo...
