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Features & Social Issues

July 18, 2020

Everything You Need To Know About The Bhima Koregaon Case

Read Time: 3 minutes As 80-year-old, Varavara Rao, battles Covid-19, the Bhima Koregaon case is back in focus. Here is a […]
July 10, 2020

Free Press And Its Battle In India

Read Time: 6 minutes As questions about India’s free Press continue to make their presence felt, a dive into Indian history […]
July 10, 2020

How a Muslim, non-binary filmmaker is trying to start conversations on uncomfortable subjects

Read Time: 4 minutes Srishti Chourasia spoke to the young writer and director on his upcoming LGTQAI+ film, Sheer Qorma and […]
June 29, 2020

Is renaming a metro station woke washing or a positive change?

Read Time: 3 minutes From ‘she man’ to ‘rainbow station’, how the Noida Metro Rail Corporation’s attempt at empowering the Trans […]
June 4, 2020

The Saffronisation of Bharat Mata

Read Time: 9 minutes Shaurya Thapa on how a symbol of resistance went on to become one of the most invoked […]
May 27, 2020

How Police Brutality In India Has Its Roots In the Whipping Act of 1864

Read Time: 5 minutes Suyash Verma on the complicated relationship between the brutal police lathi of today and the colonial act […]
March 14, 2020

The Craziest Conspiracy Theories Around The Coronavirus

Read Time: 4 minutes Shaurya Thapa made a list of the wildest stories about the pandemic doing the rounds COVID-19 aka […]
March 7, 2020

After A Riot: Dispatch From Delhi, Part II

Read Time: 5 minutes A report by Ruhani Kaur and Gunjeet Sra from Shiv Vihar, one of the worst affected areas […]
February 27, 2020

After a Riot: Dispatch from Delhi

Read Time: 5 minutes As the north-east part of the capital inches towards normalcy, Ruhani Kaur and Gunjeet Sra visit the riot affected […]
February 24, 2020

How to Keep Calm In the Face of Fascism

Read Time: 6 minutes Tanya Mohapatra spoke to therapists on the right way to combat anxiety and depression in the face […]
February 3, 2020

Women Taking On the Government

Read Time: 2 minutes Srishti Chourasia spoke to women who continue to express their dissent, despite bullets and threats against them. […]
January 31, 2020

Inside Delhi’s Gun Culture

Read Time: 3 minutes The Capital’s licensed armories are stagnating but sales in illegal weapons continues to surge, a report by […]
November 24, 2019

Everything You Need To Know About The Transgender Persons Bill

Read Time: 4 minutes Supriya Raman, on why the Trans community is so upset with the 2019  Trans Bill In April […]
November 18, 2019

Diversity, Democracy and Dissent: JNU

Read Time: 5 minutes The fight JNU students and teachers are fighting today, is not a fight to save themselves a […]
September 3, 2019

What’s The Big Deal About The National Register of Citizens

Read Time: 3 minutes Everything you need to know about the largest citizenship drive in the world. What was possibly the […]
August 14, 2019

India’s Unwillingness to Declare a Climate Emergency

Read Time: 4 minutes Still dependent on fossil fuels and with a no concrete solutions for its droughts and ground-water problems, […]
August 12, 2019

More Men at Home, More Women at Work

Read Time: 4 minutes Why should women bear the burden of the ‘motherhood penalty,’ it is time corporate organisations help men […]
July 16, 2019

How A South Korea Based Magazine Is Bringing Asia Together

Read Time: 2 minutes A brief introduction to The AsiaN, a one of a kind Asian collaboration that is celebrating its […]
June 15, 2019

The Blind Quilt Makers of Kashmir

Read Time: 4 minutes Two brothers, both blind by birth, have been earning their livelihood by stitching quilts and mattresses despite […]
December 1, 2018

What Made Farmers March to Delhi

Read Time: 5 minutes Every 30 minutes a farmer commits suicide in India, what will it take for the central government […]
November 26, 2018

Medical Cannabis May Pave The Way For Marijuana In India

Read Time: 2 minutes Researchers are set to conduct clinical trials for the medicinal benefits of the plant in All India […]
August 29, 2018

India Almost Made A Law Against Lynching, Then People Forgot About It

Read Time: 6 minutes A year since MASUKA came into existence, the draft is still struggling through its way to becoming […]
August 29, 2018

How Rihai Manch Is Combating Hate Politics

Read Time: 4 minutes A legal-political advocacy group completes 10 years fighting injustice of state and police, reports Pratikshit Singh In […]
May 31, 2018

Should Caste Matter?

Read Time: 3 minutes The upper castes want to hold on to power and dominate others, writes Nikhat Fatima  Caste system […]
May 28, 2018

These Three Men from Kashmir Have One Hobby—Blood Donation

Read Time: 5 minutes These donors have donated more than 300 blood pints till now and they’re not done yet, writes […]
May 21, 2018

This Man is Riding Through 5 countries to Generate Awareness on the Hazards of Plastic

Read Time: 6 minutes Inspired by the story of a sperm whale that washed up dead on Spanish shores because there […]
April 27, 2018

How An Indian Man Inspired This Pakistani To Build A Forest In His City

Read Time: 5 minutes The Japanese method of mimicking nature, and growing forests in the heart of the city, is being […]
April 24, 2018

Why Death Penalty For Rape Doesn’t Mean Swifter, Better Justice

Read Time: 3 minutes According to a report by IANS up to 90 percent of rape cases reported were pending trial […]
March 30, 2018

This Man Is Using Storytelling To Promote Communal Harmony and India’s Diversity

Read Time: 3 minutes Asif Khan Dehlvi, took to the art form as a means of bringing back the glorious past […]
March 23, 2018

Meet The New Feminist, LGBTQ Supporting Face of Islam

Read Time: 5 minutes Alessandra Bonanomi, spoke to the human rights campaigner and one of the few women Imam’s in the […]
March 23, 2018

How a Rickshaw-puller Helped Build 9 Schools

Read Time: 3 minutes 82-year-old, Ahmed Ali regretted never getting an education, so he built schools in his hometown of Karimganj, […]
March 8, 2018

Things to Remember on Women’s Day

Read Time: 4 minutes Ruchika Sharma, on the socialisation of gender roles, the need for feminism and the marketing gimmicks that […]
March 5, 2018

How Delhi’s Street Children Are Turning To Drugs

Read Time: 5 minutes Srishti Bhardwaj on the children who have turned to substance abuse to combat poverty and neglect  “My […]
March 5, 2018

How a Young Boy Returned Home From His Orphanage To Set Up A School

Read Time: 5 minutes Majid Maqbool, on a young man who lost his father, left his village to study in an […]
February 22, 2018

How The Irrelevant Project Is Disrupting Stereotypes

Read Time: 3 minutes sbcltr spoke to the people who are enabling children see a world beyond biases, one book at […]
February 14, 2018

Why India Hates Love

Read Time: 4 minutes How the country treats its lovers is proof that the old vanguards of tradition feel threatened by […]
February 8, 2018

A Woman Was Harassed Here

Read Time: 5 minutes NorBlackNorWhite’s new line is all about taking on sexual harassment The designer duo has launched a new […]
January 26, 2018

Nationalism In India

Read Time: 4 minutes On Republic Day, sbcltr revisits Rabindranath Tagore’s essay on the subject in order to bring out some excerpts […]
January 24, 2018

Meet The Real Inspiration Behind Akshay Kumar’s PadMan

Read Time: 4 minutes Alice Sharma on the social entrepreneur who risked everything to make women’s hygiene and menstruation a topic […]
January 24, 2018

This Retired Academician Now Treats Manual Scavengers

Read Time: 4 minutes Siddhant Mohan, on how Dr R.C. Agarwal has devoted his post-retirement life to taking care of manual […]
January 18, 2018

5,000 Year Old Rock Painting Discovered In Kashmir Could Be The Oldest Depiction of A Supernova

Read Time: 3 minutes A team of astrophysicists have unearthed an ancient painting in the valley that is believed to be […]
December 28, 2017

2017, the year of the laughing monkeys

Read Time: 5 minutes Our little rock around the sun has certainly heated up in 2017 and it isn’t entirely global […]
November 22, 2017

The Ma-Behen Rule And Other Gems From The Language Of Oppression

Read Time: 7 minutes Malini Gopalakrishnan explains how the language of oppression is ingrained into our collective psyche “Language is power, life […]
November 17, 2017

How ChalChitra Abhiyaan Gives You a Glimpse Into Real India

Read Time: 7 minutes sbcltr spoke to documentary filmmaker, Nakul Singh Sawhney, about his cultural-political media co-operative For a little over […]
October 10, 2017

In Conversation With India’s Birdman Aasheesh Pittie

Read Time: 12 minutes Rohini Kejriwal spoke to the ornithologist about the state of conservation in India, challenges posed by urbanisation, […]
September 26, 2017

Appraising the Rohingya refugee situation in India and abroad

Read Time: 3 minutes Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood writes about the efforts being made to help the refugees worldwide The New […]
September 6, 2017

Remembering Gauri Lankesh Through Her Words

Read Time: 3 minutes The journalist who was vocal about death threats becoming a “common factor” was shot dead in Bengaluru […]
September 5, 2017

These Women Are Using Handloom To Empower Themselves

Read Time: 4 minutes Mirza Mosaraf Hossain on how women in Birbhum took to handlooms to earn a living and change […]
July 26, 2017

The Partition Museum Project

Read Time: 4 minutes It is a place of collective memory, where broken fragments come together to narrate the history of […]
July 21, 2017

Recycling Shipping Containers To Build Classrooms

Read Time: 5 minutes Mihika Jindal caught up with Aadhan, to understand recycled infrastructure and its future in India No one would […]
July 17, 2017

The Growing Culture of Protest

Read Time: 5 minutes From Bengaluru to London, Vedant Vaishampayan, on the people who are speaking up against the majoritarian Indian […]
July 13, 2017

How Sharad Sharma Is Changing the World through Comic books

Read Time: 4 minutes The founder of world comic books will make you want to pick up a pencil and join […]
July 8, 2017

Biking Through The Silk Route

Read Time: 4 minutes Rohini Kejriwal tracks one man’s motorcycle adventure through 22+ countries “What is that feeling when you’re driving […]
June 1, 2017

Around the World On a Bamboo Bicycle

Read Time: 5 minutes Tanushree Singh met up with Sievituo Chevy from Kohima, Nagaland who travelled to 25 countries across the […]
May 20, 2017

Exposing Propaganda: Pratik Sinha

Read Time: 3 minutes Manan Kapoor, on living in a post-truth world and how the founder of AltNews is tackling the […]