By Tulika Narayan:Every once in a while I pick up a newspaper only to get horrified. Every time I watch TV, the reality strikes me and every moment I have wondered over spending a night all alone, the issue has always pinned me. Elders often ask
By Anshul Kumar Pandey: Really. That would be too easy an exit. I have suggested this before and I suggest this again. Let’s not hang the rapists. Let’s castrate them. Not chemically, but surgically. Without sedatives. Let them feel the pain of a woman when
By Sadho: Change mindset? Really?For a moment let’s forget the rapes of 20-30 year old women!Explain to me, how do you plan to change the mindset of that man who abused his 6 year old daughter for 1 and half year and invited his friends to
By Mohnish Sinha: It is axiomatic that media is a platform that voices opinions of all quarters across the wide spectrum of people in the world. It is here that myriad voices find their place but no final conclusion is drawn by the media itself. Media
By Ashima Gujral: An inevitable sight on the streets of Delhi is the presence of nagging beggars at every red light in the city. Casual beggars, shabbily dressed women with hungry babies, young kids performing on the footpaths and disabled men and women asking for ‘monetary’
By Umika Sharma: “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” The blame game for the latest smog hit capital of India, Delhi, has again started. The Chief Minister says that it’s the result of burning straw in neighbouring
By Khushboo Aggarwal: ‘A Prostitute’; the word evokes similar thoughts in our minds, a woman who gives sexual favours in exchange of materialistic things, one who sells her body for money. But my visit to G.B. Road, a red-light district of Delhi, for an HIV-AIDS awareness
By Sameeksha Jain: “I took the road less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” A question that has constantly haunted mankind - What has education done to us? Why all the fuss? Well, the answer isn’t rocket science and you can
By Shweta Lohia: It has been three hours since the moon has been glowing in the sky. I am surrounded by serenity while reading my favourite novel, Arundhati Roy's, The God Of Small Things. My mickey mouse printed quilt is providing me the much-needed warmth