By Piyush Srivastava Lucknow, Jan 20, 2020: Police snatched their biscuits, water bottles and spare blankets on January 18 night. ● Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s social media team sneaked into the protest through following morning and afternoon, scouring for anything that could be used against the women andContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jan 17, 2020: As the clock strikes noon, this small empty courtyard in Entally fills up with eager eyes and empty tummies. The promise of food has been bringing the hungry mouths from the neighboring slums to this courtyard every afternoon since the beginning of the new year. It’sContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 15, 2020: Housewives are second largest group among suicide victims in India, according to the “Suicide in India 2018” data released by the National Crime Record Bureau. Housewives accounted for 17.1 percent of suicides in that year. Daily wage earners topped the list (22.4 percent), followed byContinue Reading
By Nikhil George Joseph New Delhi, Jan 14, 2020: Jesuit Father Job Kozhamthadam is an award-winning historian and philosopher of science, who acknowledges the role of religion in the development of modern science and technology. The 74-year-old priest is in the breed of scholars who specialize in the history andContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 10, 2020: Chhapaak (Splash), a Bollywood film released on January 10, draws social attention to victims of acid attacks who are forced to live as outcasts. The Hindi-language film, directed by Meghna Gulzar and produced by her as well as Deepika Padukone in collaboration with Fox StarContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan. 10, 2020: Every night, 75-year-old Noornissa braves the freezing cold to help block one of the main roads into the capital of India, in a protest that is at the forefront of a rising challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For nearly four weeks, Noornissa and moreContinue Reading
By Poorvi Gupta New Delhi, Dec 27, 2019: Nearly 70 percent Indian mothers have used smartphones to raise their children, according to a survey by YouGov, an Internet-based market research and data analytics firm. The firm has also found that eight out of 10 mothers feel that technology has madeContinue Reading
New Delhi, Dec 27, 2019: Countries around the world have promised gender equality by 2030, but in 2019 a new index showed that even the most advanced nations weren’t doing enough to reach that goal. Women are still paid around 20 percent less than men and make up fewer thanContinue Reading
By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec 23, 2019: Precisely 48 years ago, on December 16, Pakistan surrendered to India at Dhaka’s Ramna Race Course, the largest military surrender after World War—11. One of the shortest wars that lasted for 13 days had ended with the chief of the Pakistani forces,Continue Reading
By Mohua Das Mumbai, Dec 23, 2019: “And oh, for Christmas dinner/Don’t you think it would be swell/ If by some good luck or fortune/ Or by some magical spell/ We would find ourselves in Goa/ With a bottle of cajel/ And toddy-leavened sannas/ To go with Sorpotel/ Sorpotel sorpotelContinue Reading