By Sarpreet Kaur
Many divorces happen in the modern age not because of a particular reason but because of the lack of reasoning.
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By Priyanka Yadav
Stuti (name changed), a class 6 student from a remote village, sighs as she says, “Ma’am sends me worksheets but sometimes I am unable to understand the questions because she sends an audio file on WhatsApp. Maybe if she could send a video, it will be comprehensible to me.”
By Michael R. Burch
At last, done with learning, I stumbled
to a well where the waters seemed sweet:
the mirage of American “justice.”
There I wept a real sea, in defeat.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The lockdown has put brakes to much of all the hair grooming that many of us are used to. A dear friend who called up this morning announced that she had decided not to colour her hair anymore.
By Saniya Ahmad
Contrary to popular belief, Mr. Modi did not disrupt harmony between Hindus and Muslims because that harmony existed only superficially. He exacerbated a deeply entrenched anti-Muslim sentiment, creating a favorable climate for his bigoted politics to thrive.
By Mubashir Karim
Sometimes,
Clarity is not what one wishes for –
Voice-breaks are needed to overwrite
The beginnings of love affairs
The-strangers-yet-to-meet kind of narratives
Over the everyday details.
By Sukla Singha
But Axone is not just about the taboo of cooking a ‘weird smelling’ food, but it’s also about the ‘otherness’ of the tongue, about how accent and pronunciation are indicators of where an individual comes from.
By Sabreen Ahmed
The act of taking the law into one’s own hands as a vindictive action of wild justice can never be the solution to any social problem. The need of the hour is to have social sensitization and an Anti-Lynching Bill for the state to check the growing menace of mobocracy in post-Covid Assam.
By Mosarrap H Khan
Kirti Sengupta, Anu Majumdar and Dustin Pickering’s Hibiscus: Poems that heal and empower encapsulates the role and duty of a poet in times of pandemic in much the same way Pushkin imagined doing it: by empowering us to think beyond death.
By Rashi Bhargava & Richa Chilana
The conventional wisdom of our society, as pointed out by Shilpa Ranade, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Phadke in their book, Why Loiter: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets (2011) is that “a loitering woman is up to no good. She is either mad, bad or dangerous to society.” Who would have thought that we will be living in a time when a loitering anybody is “mad, bad or dangerous to society.”
By Syed Basit
It is pertinent to mention that the new domicile rules are against the main purpose of the parent statute (Reorganization Act) which was passed in order to eradicate the problems of unemployment in the UT of J&K as the Modi Government claimed while passing the Act.
By Puja Roy
“Aaj Jane Ki Zid Na Karo” remains as one of the most viewed songs on YouTube with many young artists across the globe doing covers for the song. However, amidst all this, we have blissfully forgotten about the one person who was behind the immortal lines of this masterpiece – Fayyaz Hashmi
By Amrita Sharma
I wrote our names upon each rock,
Of luminous screens and flashing slates,
In blacks and whites and thousand fonts,
That morphed along a tenuous carve.
By Samiya Athar
Since the people do not have money to buy oil, salt, spices, they sell about half of the ration they get so that they can buy these items.
By Umang Kumar
He knew about the whole business of “paisa phenkna” – the luxury to spend from the vast disposable incomes and the wealth accruing from the legacies of our privileged backgrounds…he did not need a Marx or even a Thomas Piketty to tell him about class conflict and inequalities in the world.
By Rashid Askari
Universities are like bicycles. If you don’t ride and keep pushing the pedals, they will fall. So, whatever happens, they need to be kept functional. We have to think up and implement education strategies in view of this whole spectrum of natural, environmental, social, political, cultural and other related issues.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Not only national and global leaders speaking on electronic media and social network but also common citizens conversing at the dinner table have been drawing an analogy between the pandemic and war in terms of the nature and scale of the campaign of prevention, treatment and cure.
By Shuma Talukdar
Vietnam is the first country to come up with a national ecocide law given its horrible experience in the Vietnam War, which devastated its environment.
By Harsh Vardhan
As Marx’s writing are critical of capitalism and liberal tradition, from the very date of its publication, Weber’s essay became a critique of Marxism and thereby of the socialist project.
By Aarti Mangal
Why cannot all stakeholders of education think about catering to the food and health requirements of the students as well as their families at a priority basis?
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