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Land Grab: Farmers Struggle as Officials Play Blame Game
Forest Department in Maharashtra illegally occupies land belonging to farmers, leaving them with no source of livelihood.
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Women Should be Younger than Their Husbands and Other Lessons of Patriarchy
Men and women alike internalise gender discrimination. Is there a way to unlearn patriarchy? Saket is in middle school. But he’s very sure of the reason behind the difference in legal marriageable age of women (18) and men (21). “It is so that women can’t dominate us,” he says with...
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Community Weddings: The Solution to Dowry and Child Marriage?
In Rajasthan, as community weddings are celebrated as philanthropic initiatives, it is time to look deeper into the politics of caste and patriarchy.
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Community Comes Together to Repair Broken Village Road
Tired of the apathy of the local authorities who failed to repair a badly damaged road for two decades, village residents in Pisurti took matters into their own hands.
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#PropertyForHer: More Than Just A Room of Her Own
While we push for uniform civil codes, it is important to remember that everyday discrimination remains a significant barrier to #PropertyForHer Tallulah was only two when her father passed away. Her mother was twenty two at that time, with two infants. Circumstances were so dire that Tallulah and her sister...
Fasting in the Name of Love
Karva Chauth has arrived. A festival of love as some call it, is just one more occasion for advertisers to ply you with everything from garish lehengas to bejewelled sieves and special facials and hairdos.
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Disability Pension: Too Little, Too Late
How many lives will it take to shake the government out of its slumber and implement and better the disability pension schemes?