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How Tagore Used Rakhi in 1905 to Resist Partition of Bengal & Strengthen Unity
A simple piece of coloured thread, decorated with love and a promise to care and support one another, is what rakhi has always meant to me. It has never been about the gifts or my brother’s tall claims...
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Mumbai Man Sees Open Drains Outside School, Does This to Get Them Fixed in 24...
It’s one thing to complain about things not working and a completely different thing to take charge and set things right. Not one to be an armchair critic, Punit Mehta, a Mumbai-based civil engineer...
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Freedom from Noise: Meet the 58-YO Woman Helping Mumbai Tackle One Of Its...
People gheraoed (surrounded) me and hurled abuses; some were even banging on the windows of my car. This incident occurred very close to the police station and in the presence of a policeman who was...
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Couple Fights To Ensure Daughter’s Tragic Road Accident Never Happens to Another
‘Being a parent means having your heart walk outside your body.’ I never understood the gravity of this statement until I became a parent myself. And Dr Shubhangi and her husband, Sanjay Tambwekar lost...
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Fearless Paati: This 92-YO Chennai Grandma Battles For Civic Issues, Despite...
Even at 92, Kamakshi Subramaniyan from Chennai is a force to be reckoned with. Be it the corporation officials or the residents; everybody reveres Kamakshi ‘paati’ as much as they love her. For anyone...
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Shocked by Stench of Toilets in Govt Schools, 80-Year-Olds Restore Them...
Padmanabha Arkalgudand and Venkatasubba Rao aged 83 years and 81 respectively, are not your usual retirees who are used to spending relaxing days at home. They are community activists who can give the...
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Thrown out of Home At 11, This Dancer Is the First Transwoman to Receive...
“Oh friend, why is your face sweating profusely like this?” enquires the Nayaki (heroine) from her Sakhi, gracefully moving her hands on her face. Sakhi blames the sun, pointing her hands toward the...
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Poll Booths to Beaches: Activist Makes Chennai Accessible for 1000s with...
Smitha Sadasivan was 19 when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). She recalls, “I had been feeling tired and sleepy all the time, unable to concentrate at college. And people wondered if I...
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What Is Greenwashing? Easy Ways to Be a Sustainable, Informed Customer
A wave of eco-consciousness is evident around the world. If supply chains are influenced by the demands of the customers, more of us are calling for eco-consciousness of popular brands. While some...
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Meet the Kerala Gay Couple Who Moved HC To Legalise Same-Sex Marriage
At the break of dawn, Nikesh Usha Pushkaran made his way through the crowd and nervously waited at the Guruvayur Shree Krishna temple, located in the Thrissur district of Kerala. It was July 5 2018,...
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Love Is Love: 6 Bollywood Films That Showcased Homosexuality With Dignity
“Main Khullam khulla aaj yeh izhar karta hoon…. aadmi hoon aadmi se pyaar karta hoon..” It is a sign of evolution in Indian cinema when a popular actor and a household name like Ayushmann Khurrana...
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The Hungry Bengal: How a Common Man’s Provocative & Poignant Art Exposed the...
It was yet another day, overrun with darkness and gloom when a man in his late twenties emerged from the shadows, his head full of matted and greasy hair. As he tugged on the tattered strap of an...
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#CoronaLockdown: Gurugram Startup Is Ensuring Govt School Kids Still Get Classes
For the past five years, iDream education, a Gurugram-based social edtech startup, has been facilitating offline access to local language digital learning content for government schools via their...
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Proud Mother of 8 Abandoned Kids, Trans Woman Shows What Humanity Is All About
Rajkumari Kinnar, popularly known as Rajkumari Kinnar ma, is a trans woman from Ritudih, a village in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district, and is held in high esteem by the people in the area. And for good...
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Once Homeless, Tamil Transwoman Blazed a Trail With Her Successful Catering...
Food never discriminates, it only satisfies hunger and makes people happy, says 60-year-old Sangeetha, who has been successfully running The Sangeetha Catering Service, one of Coimbatore’s most popular...
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India’s Panipuri Sellers Are Invisible Victims of COVID-19. Can We Help?
For many of us, living away from our parents, home is a concoction of bittersweet emotions. It’s rewarding and exciting but also, frightening and lonesome. I know because this is my lived reality, and...
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A Restaurant Charged me Rs 10 For ‘Cooling’; Here’s How They Were Fined Rs 2...
Have you ever been charged extra for ‘cooling,’ over and above the price listed on the product? It is a daily annoyance that thousands of Indians face every day, with shopkeepers apparently confident...
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‘I Teach Prostitutes About Safe Sex’: This Mumbai Fisherwoman Is Unlike Any...
Sitting atop dirty, fishwater strewn counters, Reshma Tilo and her mother, Leela Ramesh Chinbaikar, sell their fresh catch on the weekends at the Bandra fish market in Mumbai. The duo have a selection...
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Restaurant Overcharged Me for Bottled Water, Here’s How I Made Them Pay For It
When 67-year-old Rohit Patel, from Ahmedabad, was charged Rs 164 for a bottle of water priced Rs 20, he refused to let it go unlike the rest of us who might turn a blind eye to overpriced products....
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Once Bullied & Harassed, Noida Transwoman Blazes Trail as Restaurateur
Life has been anything but kind towards Urooz Husain (27), a transwoman from Bhagalpur, a small town in Bihar. Despite being bullied all through school, sexually harassed at her workplace later on, and...
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