Ishita Chatterjee, University of Melbourne | The Conversation Informal settlements are experiencing a greater surge in COVID-19 cases than other urban neighbourhoods in Mumbai, India. Their high density, narrow streets, tight internal ...
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How much more longer?
[By Riti Sinha] Nearly seven years ago, on February 9 2012, a 19-year-old, young teenage girl was returning home with her colleagues after work. All was well, except that she ...
Read More »Exit Polls: Effects on Indian Polity
By Col N N Bhatia(Retd) Both politicians and the nappies need to be changed often and for the same reason! Margret Thatcher The world’s largest democracy has just finished the ...
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National Affairs
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She Is The Ideal Role Model ‘Veer Nari’ – Bimla Devi
[By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)] Dwarhat though a non-descript small town along the serpentine road, amidst cedar and pine trees, is a heart-captivating destination in the Kumaon hills with numerous ...
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Two Iconic Five Star Marshals of The Indian Armed Forces
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Why India’s persecuted tribes are marking their alternative independence day
LetsTalkChange
Counting On Girl Power For Good Governance
[By Anuradha Shukla] Anand (WFS) – Hinal Patel is a nursing graduate, Radha Patel is an engineer, Nisha Patel works as a manager at a motorbike showroom while Viralben Sarvaiya ...
Read More »Young Zaiba Changes The Game For Children
[By Roshin Varghese] Mysore (WFS) – Every morning, a young woman steps out of her small two-room home, which she shares with her grandmother, parents and three siblings, ready to ...
Read More »Time To Narrow The Gender Chasm in National Income Accounting
|By Simran Brar| I read about Adam Smith and his iconic metaphor of the “invisible hand” for the first time as a teenager in the late ’90s. The “invisible hand” refers ...
Read More »Chewang Norphel : The white knight of Ladakh building glaciers to tackle global warming
Chewang Norphel may seem like an ordinary villager but in reality he is far from the ordinary. In a place 13,000 feet above sea level, this remarkable man is taking on the global ...
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Nazokat, Deminer, Lives On The Edge
Dushanbe (WFS) – Nazokat Begmatova, a humanitarian deminer, didn’t have the opportunity to go to university, which reduced her chances of obtaining what would be widely considered ‘a good job’ ...
Read More »Gangster,Addict,Dancing Queen
See how a former gangster and drug addict changed her life, her children’s, as well as the lives of young, “up-coming gangsters”. Her secret weapon to reach the troubled youth? – Dance. ...
Read More »Opinion: Women breaking barriers to clean energy
By Gisele Bündchen New York (Women’s Feature Service) – Did you know how big an impact a simple wood-burning stove can have on a woman’s life? Stoves produce toxic smoke ...
Read More »Impoverished Women Spin Exotic Weaves
[By Surekha Kadapa Bose] Aurungabad(WFS) – Bent on their looms for hours, days and months, the women of Paithan, a small town near Aurangabad, in Maharashtra, spin a dream world. ...
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How Mumbai’s poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
Ishita Chatterjee, University of Melbourne | The Conversation Informal settlements are experiencing a greater surge in COVID-19 cases than other urban neighbourhoods in Mumbai, India. Their high density, narrow streets, tight internal ...
Read More »Is it the end of AIDS in 2030?
[By Syed Mohammad Afsar] Geneva – Writing on World AIDS Day a few years ago, I had shared the story of Seema (name changed), a young mother, and her daughter ...
Read More »Bottled Risk
[By Brahma Chellaney] BERLIN – Over the last 15 years, the bottled-water industry has experienced explosive growth, which shows no sign of slowing. In fact, bottled water – including everything ...
Read More »Healthcare For Women In Times Of Distress
Delhi (WFS) — Millions have been affected by the devastating earthquake that jolted Nepal on April 25, 2015. With half a million homes destroyed, and hundreds of thousands more damaged, ...
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AFSPA in Kashmir: A Battle of Perceptions
[By Adfar Shah] Tripura’s Manik Sarkar government’s decision on revoking AFSPA recently was much hailed in public and intellectual circles. However, the ripple effect as expected was the fresh revival ...
Read More »Lord Of The BP 638
|By Col. NN Bhatia (Retd)| The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 is synonymous with liberation of Bangladesh that commenced with Pakistan launching of Operation Chengiz Khan on 3 December 1971 through pre-emptive ...
Read More »Malharis’ Battle Of Gadra City In 1971 War
|By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)| The Battle of Gadra City fought on the night of 4/5 December 1971 was one of the important battles in the Western Theatre. 15 KUMAON (Indore) ...
Read More »Even The Rain God Shed Tears Over Unfulfilled OROP Promise by PM Modi
Upset over the delay in the implementation of the ‘One Rank, One Pension’ policy, hundreds of retired military personnel on Sunday staged demonstrations at 55 locations around India, including Delhi, ...
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‘Stop Judging People With Disability’
Delhi (WFS) – As a child she used to roam around the residential colony in Bikaner in Rajasthan, where she lived with her parents and elder sister, climbing trees, playing ...
Read More »“Do what you love and love what you do”
I fainted in office! and that triggered my journey on a completely new path - path of freedom, happiness and passion, culminating in the founding of ZipOut (ZIP - Zindagi in pajama)
Read More »Coolie No. 15: Jaipur Junction’s lady porter
Not discouraged or disheartened; resolutely courageous, she sprints up and down stair cases each day, loading taxis, chasing customers and carrying upto 30 kilograms on her head. Working among 200 men ...
Read More »Scaling New Horizons With Daring Dives
Delhi (WFS) – Archana Sardana, a 40-year-old adventure enthusiast, is India’s first woman civilian Building Aerial Span Earth (BASE) jumper, often jumping from a bridge of over 3,600 metres (12,000 ...
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Men Stand Tall Against Child Marriage
[By Chetna Verma] Agra – The young thrive on dreams for a brighter tomorrow. Most aspire to have a comfortable home, a rewarding career and a loving family – and ...
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Men For Women At The Panchayat
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Meet Men Who Shun Dowry, Share Property With Their Wives
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Woes of men as non-custodian parents
Environment
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The Paris climate summit must go beyond mere declarations of intent
[By Christian Gollier,Jean Tirole] As the Paris 2015 climate talks get under way, the fear is growing that this international conference will be reduced to a simple list of good ...
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Wealth in waste? Using industrial leftovers to offset climate emissions
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Let’s make sure that cleaning up the world’s water doesn’t send our climate targets down the gurgler
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Let’s Talk About Rhinos
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Opinion: Women breaking barriers to clean energy
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This Village in India Plants 111 Trees Every Time a Girl is Born
World News
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How to Stop Terrorism in Europe
[By Brahma Chellaney] BERLIN – Europe is under pressure. Integrating asylum-seekers and other migrants – 1.1 million in Germany alone in 2015 – into European society poses a major ...
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Since ancient Greece, the Olympics and bribery have gone hand in hand
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Britain votes to leave the EU, here’s what happens next
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Asia’s Troubled Water
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Confessions Of A Pakistani National
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Brussels attacks show just how desperate Islamic State has become
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The Limits of Capitalism with Communist Characteristics
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Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on Terror