casteism | Youth Ki Awaaz

Right To Equality: Does It Really Exist In India?

By Ashootosh: Today, I was going through my Facebook page and there was one link showing new job opportunities in Intelligence Bureau or IB, a very crucial organization of India and trying to protect its citizens from various threats. I did not pay much attention

Research,Society

Reservation: Understanding The Past, Present And Solutions [RESEARCH]

By Sumedha Upadhyay: We live in a free country and this freedom is a gift of democracy to us. Our constitution gives us the right to freedom and most importantly to exercise this freedom in an equitable manner. At the same time it is incumbent

Shout Out

er..That birth is Reserved!! (A satirical take on Reservation)

Prateek Waghre: TAP TAP!!TAP TAP!!…A strong smell of jasmine filled my nasal cavity as my shoulder was poked back into consciousness. She spoke in a foreign tongue, was 6 times my size and I could tell she wasn’t happy by the way she was vigorously

Politics

Casting India, Casting Census

Meenakshi Gaur: The caste based propagandas are back; this time not during the elections but when the world’s largest democracy gears up for its headcount. The Congress-led UPA government has succumbed to the high-political pressure created by the Yadav trio; Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad

Education

DU Students Feel the Need for Basic Reforms, if not Strategic Reforms

Anshul Tewari Some 47% of India's current 1 billion population are under the age of 20, and teenagers among them number about 160 million. By 2015, Indians under 20 will make up 55% of the population--and wield proportionately higher spending power. In the emerging era

Society

THE KANDHAMAL CONTROVERSY

-Anshul TewariKandhamal is a tribal majority district inhabited by the Kandha tribe. It is the poorest district in Orissa and one of the poorest in India. This district has witnessed a number of communal conflicts. WHY IT ALL STARTED? The conflict at Kandhamal was basically

Society

I LOVE MY (discrimi)NATION

-Anshul Tewari India is world’s largest democracy, world’s fastest growing free market economy, and a country where……….discrimination is still observed, a country where one voice raised leads to one voice less. A few days back, I saw a small kid selling ‘channa masala’ near my