Mandatory Vaccination: A tug of war between individual and community rights

An elderly man in Bihar who took 12 doses of vaccine in a year and an unvaccinated  Canadian folk singer who died of Covid-19 after intentionally contracting the disease for natural immunity, brings the autonomy of the human body into question, writes Kashish Sharma Nidhi Jackson, a woman in her late twenties, recently found her […]

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Women in politics; the name sake’s participation

Almost a month taken out from what has been a high-decibel, aggressive and communally-charged election season, several post-poll studies have made their way decoding and discussing every single aspect of the campaigns and most importantly, the results threadbare. Elections – the one (and maybe only?) place where we are never short of multi-layered and significant […]

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How Hindi cinema misrepresents the LGBTQIA+

Bollywood’s attempt at normalizing homosexuality could is doing more harm Following the abrogation of Article 377 in 2018, a move that liberated many closeted sexual minorities, the Indian film industry encashed the opportunity by bringing out movies depicting homosexual or transsexual relationships. Most of those films aim at normalising the hitherto-taboo subject and have gone […]

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