By Radhika Narang: Known from her action movies and humanitarian causes, Angelina Jolie revealed to the New York Times that she had undergone a double mastectomy in February 2013 to prevent herself from getting breast cancer after she found out she carried the gene that
By Abhinita Mohanty: Going to a place, nearly after 15 years, gives you mixed feelings of excessive excitement and unanticipated apprehensions, especially if it’s your village. Being born and brought up in the capital city of Bhubaneswar, I had almost no contact with my village.
By Achilles Rasquinha: “Maa” ...and a glimpse of her innocence appears to our conscience. The word itself is as strong as the powerful “Om”. God exists, and it is truly her, for she is our creator. Her omnipotent love and her omnipresent care shield us and
By Achilles Rasquinha: Think about your favorite scientist. Well, was it Einstein? Not surprising, since Albert Einstein will remain considered as the most well-known scientist to all laymen who’re yet unaware of his prominent enlightening theories that have reshaped our understandings of the universe. So,
By Fawaz Shaheen: Summers in India and long and sweltering, and for most people the only time they can get away for a vacation. We have tried to compile a list of ten prominent places that form an ideal ‘summer retreat’. There places are mentioned
Vishakha Dahiya: Delhi, the capital of India. Rather, the "rape" capital of India. This feeling of utter disgust is beyond what we could possibly express in words. We can never fathom how a victim as young as 5-years-old is struggling through it. We worry about
By Pooja Malhotra: Commutiny – the Youth collective has been facilitating an online and offline campaign exploring the realities of how dominant gender norms create restrictive situations in our lives. Called MustBol, the campaign is a call to young people to examine violence in their
By Sumeet Kaur: Eco tourism is spreading rapidly; it is the latest buzzword and it certainly has something to do with nature and our responsibility towards nature. If tourism operates in such a way as to minimize negative impacts on the environment, won’t that be
By Jit Shankar Banerjee: Where I come from, the idea of Gandhi is perhaps a tad bit more complicated than it is in the rest of India. Growing up, I heard about the antithetical nature of his understanding of the future of this nation to