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SJR Verity leads the way by celebrating a green Deepavali

October 27, 2014 Sujata Nanda

It all started with an idea to celebrate Deepavali by saying NO to crackers. Noble enough? Perhaps, if you think that the atmosphere is the only thing which makes up the environment. However, the environment

Did you get groped today?

May 6, 2014 Divya Sreedharan

A woman was walking. Her age doesn’t matter. She was walking on the road next to her home. It was evening and she had been out for an errand. The lane was quiet and there

Cow’s urine on one’s face and other such injustices

March 26, 2014 Claire Graham

Ultimately, I have cow’s urine on my face. There is no getting away from this true fact. Worse still, I am filming an interview and short of halting filming to announce this piece of information

Basavangudi Auto Incident: Citizen Activist’s folow up

February 14, 2014 Deepa Mohan

I had posted about an unpleasant incident here. I am very happy to say that a concerned citizen activist, Mr S R Venkatram, followed this up, and just now, he sent in this report: “This

Footsteps for freedom

December 31, 2013 Pushpa Achanta

How about starting 2014 with a walk for gender minorities? Praja Rajakiya Vedike along with other organizations is conducting “Freedom Walk – End Violence on Sexual Minorities” tomorrow (Wednesday, Jan-1-2014). This is an effort to

Us and them: What’s the difference?

December 16, 2013 Divya Sreedharan

Last week, on a social networking site, I put up a post about my cook and her barely-18 year-old daughter. The girl had just completed a sponsored and very expensive beauticians’ course at a top

Fairness cream ads in kids channels: ‘Nothing unfair about it!’

December 12, 2013 Divya Sreedharan

Can we really change our colour-conscious culture? I have a good friend Monisha, an ardent gardener. She grows and sells ornamental plants so she is out in the sun a lot. Which means her fair

Kali and the patriarchal fears

October 17, 2013 Shweta Taneja

She’s naked, covered with ashes, her hair matted with snakes in them, a garland of skulls and freshly cut heads around her neck. She laughs like madness herself, dancing to the chaotic rhythm of death,

It is time we talked about Menstruation

September 25, 2013 Sinu Joseph

How can I ever talk about it? These are the opening lines that play on most women’s mind when it comes to even thinking about menstruation and all the embarrassing moments that surround it. All women,

When passport office asks for ex-husband’s details

September 20, 2013 Moumita Bhattacharya

I went to the Passport Seva Kendra at Outer Ring Road in Bengaluru to submit the application for the reissue of my minor daughter’s passport on tatkal. The lady at the front desk, G (name withheld) told

Eat right

This Women’s Day, celebrate your health!

March 7, 2013 Sweta Uchil-Purohit

Nutrient requirements of women vary significantly from men’s; here are the 5 important things that women must have in their diets.

Woman’s ingenuity at Puttenahalli Lake

March 7, 2013 Usha Rajagopalan

We at PNLIT feel blessed and privileged to get an opportunity to see the revival of a lake at such close quarters. We cherish the experience and want to share it with everybody. After all,

Volunteer Diary

A unique craft store

February 27, 2013 Pushpa Achanta

At first glance, the store called "Himalayan Dowry An Anti-Dowry Store" seems like any other place dealing in Kashmiri handicrafts, except for its name. Only on enquiring, would one realize that there is more to

Freedom – what’s that?

November 11, 2012 Pushpa Achanta

"Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose", said someone. But, for many people who often lose the little that they have, freedom is another wor(l)d. And that wor(l)d did not appear on 15th

Volunteer Diary

Namma deha, namma hakku!

August 9, 2012 Pushpa Achanta

That was how around 40 of us reclaimed our space vociferously and visibly on the roads of Madiwala (South Bangalore) and its environs between 5.00-7.00 pm last Saturday, 4th August. We energetically and emphatically