Urban conservationist Vijay Nishanth, a man who is determined to preserve what is left of the “Garden City”. Commonly referred to as the “tree doctor of Bangalore” he is the founder of ...
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Investigations
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Why land acquisition has become a tricky issue
|Narendra Kaushik| New Delhi: Despite repeated pleas from officials of Greater Noida Authority(GNA), Mahesh Pandit has not vacated a piece of land in Sector XU-2 he was compensated for about ...
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Mica mining: Cosmetic giants riding on children’s backs In India
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Demystifying Delhi’s Water Crisis
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Tea gardens of Dooars transforming into gardens of death
LetsTalkChange
Defending the right to watch violent porn – how can that be justice for April Jones?
[By Mari Marcel Thekaekara| New Internationalist] Rape and sexual violence in India pop up everyday, routinely now, in our newspapers. People have become blasé about ordinary rape. Yes. I did just ...
Read More »Indian schools told to junk the junk food
[By Mari Marcel Thekaekara | New Internationalist] Some unbelievable news just broke. Move over, Jamie Oliver: school nutrition has taken a leap forward in India, at least on paper. India’s ...
Read More »Roti Bank : A lifeline for the poor in Bundelkhand
[By Narendra Kaushik] Mahoba: Every evening as the clock strikes 7 O’clock, Tara Patkar, a journalist who quit the profession in January 2014 to take up public causes, Haji Muttan, ...
Read More »Sign the Petition: Urge the IPC to allow our paralympic athletes to participate in the upcoming events
We’ve started the petition to “Urge the IPC to allow our athletes to participate in the upcoming paralympic events” and need your help to get it off the ground. We ...
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Media under attack
[Narendra Kaushik] New Delhi: Samajwadi Party Government’s assertion that Jagendra Singh, who was allegedly burnt alive at the behest of Ram Murti Singh Verma, its Minister for Backward Classes Welfare ...
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 »Under The Spotlight: Women In Media
[By Rashme Sehgal] Delhi (WFS) – Arifa Noor, resident editor of ‘Dawn’, a daily newspaper published from Islamabad, Pakistan, describes her role as a woman journalist in the following words: ...
Read More »The Sunni Arc of Instability
|By Brahma Chellaney| ABU DHABI – While international observers fixate on the Sunni-Shia rivalry’s role in shaping geopolitics in the Islamic world, deep fissures within the Sunni arc that stretches ...
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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, ...
Read More »Liberation War-Historicising a Personal Narrative
|By Col Nadir Ali (Retd) , Pakistan Army| Former Pakistani Col Nadir Ali’s talks of his experiences from 1971 in Bangladesh at the BRAC University in Dhaka. Historicizing a ...
Read More »Indian Prisoners Of War Holed Till Death In Pakistan
|By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)| Capturing prisoners of war (POW) is as old as man kind and warfare. In the earliest history, men captured used to be either slaughtered or ...
Read More »The philosophy of the Soldier Mountaineer Colonel Narinder Kumar ‘Bull’!
[By Col NN Bhatia | A Preface] The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of the man. – Anonymous The Regimental Centre Officers’ Mess ...
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She Is The Ideal Role Model ‘Veer Nari’ – Bimla Devi
Riti S, Team PB7 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 ancient ...
Read More »‘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 »The Box Office Goes Pink
[By Surekha Kadapa-Bose|WFS] Mumbai – Is the face of the male-dominated Hindi film industry finally undergoing a much-needed change? If one looks at the hits of the year it certainly ...
Read More »Hounded and harassed – but Sharmila Seyyid isn’t giving up
[By Mari Marcel Thekaekara | New Internationalist] My morning paper brought me news which was nauseating and alarming, yet which filled me with hope, all at the same time. A gutsy Sri Lankan ...
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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
World News
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Lessons For India From Sri Lankan Crises
Col NN Bhatia (Retd) Sri Lanka, the island nation is our immediate southeastern neighbour, nicknamed as Pearl of the Indian Ocean and teardrop of India, beyond its ancient ruins, beautiful ...
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India and Pakistan fought 3 wars over Kashmir – here’s why international law and US help can’t solve this territorial dispute
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How to Stop Terrorism in Europe
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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