Seventy-one-year-old Hari Baskaran, in partnership with HelpAge India, went on a cyclotron to celebrate active ageing and to draw attention to the critical support needs of the elderly. He cycled from Chennai to Delhi, approximately 3000 kms, in over two months. Along the way, he stayed at many...
In an attempt to boost the business of small and medium scale industries, homepreneurs and to raise funds for BestFriendz Society, SHE headed by Shagufta Hanaphie organised one of the best Fashion & Lifestyle exhibition post Lockdown " Kolkata Festival " at ICCR on 11th and 12th December, 2020 f...
Various governments and municipalities are fighting against illegal construction of structures on non-permitted land holdings. Recently, the demolition of the illegal portion of Kangana Ranaut’s bungalow at Bhadra in Mumbai has initiated a lot of controversies and discussions. In this case, ...
It is an apparently contradictory development that India has one of the biggest free food distribution systems in the world but at the same time it scores very poorly in the Global Hunger Index. One of the main reasons behind this has been that the common people in India are habituated in cons...
Poornam is an annual event organised by Unmish, a learning centre for differently abled children and adults took a different turn this year. The event was online with entries by special children for various competitions which spanned over two days. Nita Diwan, Founder and Principal, Unmi...
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...
