As I read about RK Pauchauri being reinstated in TERI and simultaneously another complaint of sexual harassment being levied against him, somehow I cannot help remembering the wise words of my grandmother, many moons ago. She would often say, Women’s rights, respect for women is more about women coming to terms with her freedom. For a woman who dared the social construct and earned a Matric degree at a time […]
Freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru were three great sons of India, who breathed their last as ‘martyrs’. All three of them were influential revolutionaries, who sacrificed their young lives to make their motherland, free from the shackles of the British rule. Bhagat Singh, a Sandhu Jat, became so popular that he had become the symbol of the new awakening among the youths. According to facts, Bhagat […]
As a school counselor in Malmo, Sweden, Pooja Sharafi has heard more than his fair share of suffering. Roughly one quarter of his kids at Sofielundsskolan are “new arrivals,” meaning they came to Sweden in the past four years. Many of them fled wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya or Afghanistan. Many have gone through hell to get here. Earlier this month, however, Sharafi heard something he had never encountered from […]
. A Government order in November 2015 has made it mandatory for all road developers in the country to use waste plastic, along with bituminous mixes, for road construction. This is to help overcome the growing problem of plastic waste disposal in India. The technology for this was developed by the ‘Plastic Man’ of India, Prof Rajagopalan Vasudevan, Professor of Chemistry at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. Plastic has slowly […]
A new digital campaign by ActionAid, an NGO which works towards reducing poverty and promoting human rights, attempts to highlight the issue of gender equality, unpaid work- be it household work, in the farm or any other sector- and its impact on women and girls in India. What this first series does not address is the fact that poverty, unpaid and unrecognised labour – for men and women – continues […]
Even as unemployment rate in Euro zone fell to a 4-year low in December and is still lingering at 5 percent in the US, various companies across the globe are slashing jobs in hundreds and thousands. These cutting of jobs have been done mainly on bad or low quarterly/annually profits thus leading to cost-cutting act. We give a list of some of the major companies of the world that are […]
The recent instances of violence in Andhra Pradesh set me think on the quota issue all over again. Even as I pen down this piece, the Kapu Quota stir unleashed violence in many parts of the state and there were even threats of fast till Friday by several protestors. The demand is that the ‘Kapu’ caste be included in the OBC category. The point that I want to emphasis is […]
“As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know”. This pithy quote uttered by American strategist and former Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, perhaps best captures the essence of Professor […]
While we were busy watching the parade on Republic Day a few days ago, a small documentary film uploaded on YouTube, starring Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Kalki Koechlin, Tiss director PM Nair and many others, was questioning the idea of freedom. The film, aptly titled Freedom Matters, questioned one of the biggest evils humanity faces today: Human trafficking. The 30-odd-minute-long film starts off by debunking myths about trafficking, such […]
We woke up to the familiar tunes of the patriotic songs blaring from loud speakers, children rushing to school for the parade and citizens wearing the various combination of the Indian Tricolour greeting each other with Vande Mataram and JaidHind! This is the day our Constitution came into force. Undoubtedly one of the most extensive and comprehensive text on running a country across the world, what’s the significance of the […]
