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Sudha Ragunathan Concert, 25th Feb. 2017 – A community event

March 9, 2017 Usha Rajagopalan

Much like the nurturing of our Puttenahalli Lake, the PNLIT concert featuring Padma Bhushan Sudha Ragunathan on 25th Feb. at MLR Convention Hall was a community event with several volunteers from the locality chipping in.

“I want children to study”

October 4, 2016 News Desk

Written by Sowbhagya and translated from Kannada to English by Devaki Samuel It’s been twenty years since I started working as community organizer. I started as a teacher for children of 3-6 years of age.

An award for no consent

March 16, 2015 Whitefield Rising

Members of the Whitefield Rising group with the Namma Bengaluru award We gave no consent and we got awarded for that! You read that right. On March 14th, Whitefield Rising won the Namma Bengaluru Foundation

It all started with a cuppa…

September 4, 2014 Divya Sreedharan

Some of the cards children have made for the carnival Sometime last year, five women were chatting over a cup of coffee. In the course of their conversation, the five (part of a moms’ group

Getting involved with the community

September 11, 2013 Sinu Joseph

What would be possible if nothing came in our way of doing what we wanted? What if we dedicated our complete self, awake, asleep and in dreams, to work? What if we went all out

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Celebrating alternate sexuality

April 26, 2010 Pushpa Achanta

An insensitive and ignorant society labels them eunuchs, hermaphrodites, kojja, ali, ombathu, and so on. But they prefer theterms hijra, kothi, jogappa, panthi, mangalamukhi, gay, lesbian, intersex, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, etc. Often ostracized by their

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Defending Human Rights

December 14, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

Bhopal. Manipur. Karnataka. Chattisgarh. Orissa. Tamil Nadu. Ayodhya. West Bengal. Maharshtra… Gas leak victims, women, sex workers, adivasis, domestic workers, children, dalits, differently abled… Survivors. Marginalized. Minorities. Excluded. Students, social activists, writers, film makers, folk

Namma Jathre – Our Festival of ‘Free’dom

August 26, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

In early 2006, many non-profit and community based organizations like SICHREM, ESG, Sangama, OpenSpace, Stree Jagruti Samiti et al and individuals (like yours truly) working with marginalized persons and social issues in and around Bangalore

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Girl, hold your head high…

August 10, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

For a long time, I had been wanting to participate in the campaign against street sexual harassment (aka eve teasing) by Blank Noise. Finally, last Sunday (Aug-5) afternoon I joined the fortnightly action – this time

“All are equal miss…

July 13, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

…Hindus, Muslims, Christians, boys and girls", were the heart warming words of Afreen Sultana, a promising class IX student of a government aided English medium school in Matadahalli, R.T. Nagar. A fornight ago, it all

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Women of this World

July 3, 2009 Pushpa Achanta

Women with courage, strength and patience. Supporting their children and each other. Speaking out against violence at home and outside. Despite the pain of abuse and the threat of ostracization and backlash. In India,