Jana-gana-mana: Mera Bharat, Meri Jaan ?
A song that instills national pride and patriotism, a song that echoes in the hearts of every Indian ?
The National Anthem for any country...
Alive Again: Widows play Holi in Varanasi
Hues of celebration and lively faces, words we associate with wedding bells. She became a wife and a daughter-in-law and tied the knot with...
The Relevance of Marxism in the 21st Century
Karl Marx was the topic of discussion in my economics class that day. I have heard that name before but never really known about...
Beauty Consumerism: An Ugly Truth
Consumerism, so far as women are concerned is closely related to the beauty industry. Beauty consumerism tends to promote sexiness, and striving for the...
Dowry Deaths- Holy Fire Turning Death Pyre
People gathered around the house drawn by the commotion like swarms of flies to a corpse. This was Chandan's house and the scene taking...
Religion Not Above Public Morality: SC Verdict on Muslim practice of polygamy
For years Muslim faith has been generally believed to have encouraged polygamy. There have been instances when a man converted to Islam from another...
Media Woes: All Histrionics and Hype?
"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more...
The Paradox Of Choice
Recently, there’s been a lot of debate about the freedoms that all human beings are entitled to. Whether it be freedom of expression, freedom...
Net Neutrality: The Right To Internet Freedom
In December 2014, Bharti Airtel, India’a largest telecom operator tried to pull off a scheme that would have shaken up the Indian Internet as...
Functional Welfare: The Economics of Happiness
It’s believed that it’s difficult to quantify what we feel. Even when asked to rank it on a scale of 1 to 10, it’s...
Medical Miracles…Fetus-In-Fetu
An expecting mother does what not to give birth to a healthy, beautiful baby. Every parent wants a child that would grow up to...
Electrons To Mario: Best Edutainment YouTube Channels
The undisputed king of online video, Youtube has many great channels that cater to the needs of the knowledge hungry, but instead of being...
But First, Let Me Take A Selfie!
“I only got 10 likes in the last 5 minutes
Do you think I should take it down?
Let me take another selfie”
The above lines from...
EQUALITY BEFORE LAW? MAYBE!
Right from the childhood, we have been moulded to imbibe the ideal clauses of our constitution one of which boasts on equality before law...
Corporal Punishment: Something to Keep or Discard?
Newspapers and social media today are replete with instances from across our country where children have been made targets of violence, pressure and other...
The Very Repellent Social Network!
social networking
ˌsəʊʃəlˈnɛtwɜːkɪŋ/
noun
The use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to one's own.
But. There...
12 Childhood Memories that will Instantly Take You Back In Time
So it’s the morning of my sister’s engagement, and I’m sitting, reflecting upon everyone’s “Kitni jaldi badi ho gayi” comments. It occurs to me...
10 Archaic Laws in India That Need Attention
Imagine you are strolling on the road and happen to find a 10 rupee note lying ahead. You look around but find no claimers...
5 Less Known Revolutionary Women and Their Fight for Equality
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to...
Too Young To Wed: Child Marriage in India
A wise man once told me, ‘If I had a penny for every woman, from an Indian city, who is hooked to Balika Vadhu,...
Clone: A Genetically Identical Xerox
Is that your twin? How can you possibly be in two places at the same time? AAAAAAAAAAA run.. ghost!! I just saw you walk...
North- East in Unison: Says No to Racism
The two recent controversies, first the BJP’s vision document for the Delhi elections referring to northeastern people in Delhi as “immigrants” and second, a...
MARD: A Catalyst For Change
http://youtu.be/2GPinWKNa84?list=PL49-tzB9-A2uAfpqGZfo9hB2JIdB_MY0J
We all are aware of the social prejudice and increasing number of atrocities faced by women in their everyday life, to name a few;...
The Significance of Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy
“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out”
-Martin Scorsese (founder, World Cinema Foundation)
For many years, Parallel Cinema has played an...
Mental Diseases: Is India equipped to deal with them?
“Arya, a student in a private school in Delhi, belonged to a well-educated family. Arya always had difficulty studying. She spent hours with her...
