By Anjali Mishra “Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much, recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man/woman whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him/her. Will it lead…
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The Link Between Gender, Crimes and Education
By Sakshi Gupta Education is the origin of a progressive society. It is something that without which a human remains only a living being or an animal. Education is considered to be important as it’s a crucial part of life. it is what leads to the success of a being,…
Increasing Crime rate against women
By Supriya Jha Circumstances such as domestic violence, verbal abuse, emotional trauma and physical abuse have never been strange to women around the world. But this time in India, the increase in domestic violence cases broke the 10-year record. According to the article published by ‘The Hindu’ on 22 June,…
Food Scarcity During Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid 19 Pandemic has taken a toll not only on the world’s best healthcare system, but it has also largely impacted the livelihood of millions across the world. In India, hunger has been an issue for multiple decades, being ignored by many previous governments on account of not being…
A large amount of farm products are being wasted everyday in Corona crisis. What else can be done?
Maryam Parvaz In a report published in 2016, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 815 million people of the 7.6 billion people in the world, or one in ten, are suffering from chronic undernourishment. In this report the number of children under 5 who are suffering from chronic…
Polyamory in India can lead to inclusion!
According to Oxford dictionary, Polyamory refers to “the fact of having simultaneous close romantic relationships with two or more other individuals, viewed as an alternative to monogamy, esp. in regard to matters of sexual fidelity; the custom or practice of engaging in multiple romantic relationships with the knowledge and consent of all…
The Illusion of LGBTQ+ Privilege
Why does the mainstream media portray only rich, creative, white-collared people as LGBTQ? Are the LGBTQ+ restricted to a certain class? (Source: Popsugar, 2017) In my second year of Degree College, in a paper on culture studies, we were told to read an article, titled, “Can the Subaltern be Gay?”…
The Widow’s Home in Chharanagar
Mayank and Arpita Introduction Chhara tribe was notified under the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 as “born criminals”. In 1952, the tribe was denotified, but they still carry the stigma of criminality. Chhara tribe is also known as Kanjarbhat (Maharashtra) and Kanjar (Rajasthan). In Gujarat, the members of tribe reside in…
NAM : Aligning ourselves in the direction of progress
Globalization is often described as a process whereby the world becomes a smaller place. The notion of space expands tremendously while time can no longer be thought in the singular. There emerges the exciting possibility to exchange both ideas and goods and services across greater distances. These exchanges supposedly foster…
Indian Cricket vs Tribal Odisha : Casting Gold Medal
Odisha is famous for it’s art, craft and sculpture and notorious for its communal riots, cyclone and tribal land encroachment by Multi National Corporations. But it’s also a state with lots of sports enthusiastic people living there. It is one of the states where we can find large number of…
Bhagat Singh: Manifesto of Naujawan Bharat Sabha
Bhagat Singh & Bhagawati Charan Vohra 06.04.1928 YOUNG COMRADES, Our country is passing through a chaos. There is mutual distrust and despair prevailing everywhere. The great leaders have lost faith in the cause and most of them no more enjoy the confidence of the masses. There is no programme and…
Remembering Occupy Hong Kong – reflections of a student protest organizer in Umbrella Movement
Tommy Cheung (On the first anniversary of the start of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, student organizer Tommy Cheung, a 21 year-old studying at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reflects on the remarkable events of last year, the role young people played and what the future holds for Hong Kong.)…
Islam and Saudi Arab: Two parallels, which refuse to intersect
Mohadassa Syed Student at Mumbai University. Saudi Arabia. The word brings to mind images of deserts, burqa clad women and dishdasha wearing young men. The land of Arabia, lies rich in cultural heritage, ancient architecture, history and religion. Hejaz, is the heart of the Islamic world, being the Prophet’s birthplace,…
India : A racist state
Ananya Student at Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts The politics of the body is perhaps the most immediate and intimate form of taming enacted upon the individual. Various forces exert great control over what you do with your body, what your body is allowed to become, and how your body…
Pokemon Go : The organized desire
Alfie Bown Co-editor of Hong Kong review of Books, Published first on Roarmag.org In 2010, Google started up a subsidiary, Niantic Inc. Google starts up a lot of companies each year and acquires many more. Google’s acquisition of every start-up and endless development of subsidiary companies with different names is…
Care Takers: The Invisible Population
Sehrish Altaf She was a criminal justice fellow at Centre for Criminology and Justice, TISS, Mumbai “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” -Frederick Douglass ‘Family is the safe haven for children’, is a commonplace saying. Even our national law for safeguarding the rights of the…
Ramadan: A Walk in Bhindi Bazaar, Mumbai
Ananya & Mohadassa Syed (Ananya is a student of Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts and Mohadassa a student of Mumbai University) A walk on the frenzied streets of Bhindi Bazaar raised a strange, tickling realization within me. I was an outsider, a detached observer who unintentionally found herself at a…
You can win : New Age Buddhism
Akshat Jain There is a rise of a certain kind of philosophy that has been called New Age Buddhism. From the perspective of political economy, it is the commercialization of Buddhism. Buddhism is being sold in self-help books, in products (that increase our well-being) produced in conditions that aren’t bad…
A Revolution in Making – Kurdistan & its Women
While Indian media has not bothered to cover it, the western media is only busy in glamourising the news reports on young women fighters of Rojava, a region where Kurds reside in Syria. After the ISIS assault in Syria one and a half years back in the city of Kobani,…
Bhasha : The Language of Diversity
“Did you know that Himachal Pradesh has 220 terms for snow? Separate words depending on when, where and how it falls.” I looked incredulously at the speaker as he continued. “Diversity is the key to life’s evolution and a crucial part of this is the range of languages we have…
#OccupyUGC: Jaari Hai, Jaari rahega!
The students agitating against the scraping of Non net fellowships, fund cuts, increased privatization of higher education assembled at the gates of MHRD to question the government’s indecision regarding the non net fellowships today. Even after 85 days of protest the MHRD has not provided any answers to the questions…
Srilanka: The road to Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
History reveals that the state of SriLanka has a poor record in delivering justice to its minorities. With this being the status quo, in September 24, 2015, the UNHRC in Geneva passed a resolution with reference to war crimes to put in place a domestic mechanism to bring to truth,…
Where is the justice in mob justice?
Mob violence, also referred to as “Mob Justice” highlights a striking paradox – it approves the dispensation of justice by people, who usurp the authorities of constitutionally delegated bodies and apply a process they define as speedy.
Wasted : The Mars in Me
Should we have to live with the waste that we generate or should we be able to hide it somewhere? Have we not become nomads on a global scale, a society which can only be understood through the social psychology of a nomadic community?
#OccupyUGC : Access to higher education
Over the last few days the country has seen one of the largest student uprisings in its recent history. UGC’s decision to scrap the non – NET scholarship, as declared on 20th October 2015, after a UGC meeting dated October 7, 2015, served as a tipping point for the simmering unrest within this student community, which has long been struggling under the assault of rising tuition fees and cost of education, reckless semesterization program at undergraduate level and deteriorating quality of public higher education due to fund cuts and a plethora of market oriented/vocational courses taking advantage of job insecurity.