By Kashish Sharma On an ordinary Thursday morning, Atheequr Rahman, a 47-year old man sits in his meat shop. The meat shop is right across the busy Russell Market of Shivajinagar in Bengaluru. As one enters the busy lane, lined with meat shops on the right, one can catch sight of Rahman’s cubicle. A U-shaped […]
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In the hustle-bustle of Russell Market, a pair of squinting eyes glared at the phone screen and then looked around, shifting from one person to the other and falling back on the screen again. The middle-aged man with a petite body wore a sky blue cotton kurta. A boy who works at his shop did […]
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From driving a car to filing an RTI, women are still sized up into stereotypical gender bias. One of the men in a party tried to tell Rebecca Solnit, an activist, journalist and writer, about a photography book that she should see, without giving her the chance to tell him that she was the author […]
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With pyres burning incessantly, bodies flowing like water in crematoriums and people fighting over medical resources, catastrophe knocked India down in the second wave of the pandemic. Watching the pandemic bulletin on television, Veena Saraswat still hears her late, 63-year-old husband’s voice calling out for help. She rushes to his room only to see an […]
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With the rising incidence of domestic violence against men, there’s a strong case for gender-neutral laws, say Sreejani Bhattacharyya Aditya,34, still shudders when he thinks about that dreadful night,when he was held at a police station in Bangalorealong with his parents after hiswife filed a dowry case against him.“The police threatened to put me behind […]
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Street kids quickly learn to fend for themselves, but they could still use a helping hand, says Saket Tiwari Kamakshi stands by the busy road ina threadbare salwar kameez, holding out a few ballpoint pens to passing motorists and pedestrians. “I must sell these pens, so I can eat,” insists the young girl, “and alsofeed […]
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