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Saumya Rastogi

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bhumika aggarwal

I can be dramatic, quirky, somber, and funny with words. Juggling with words since fifth grade, if language and stories found their teller, then Satan did write my name on …

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Saachi D'Souza

Saachi D'Souza is a research intern, social media strategist and freelance writer based out of Ahmedabad, India. Her work explores mental health, gender, and caste in South-Asia.

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Kudrat Wadhwa

Kudrat is an independent journalist who works full-time as a Senior Editor of Represent Magazine, a YouthComm magazine that publishes personal and reported stories by youth in care. She holds …

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Divya Venkattu

Divya is a columnist for the Culture section of The Glasgow Guardian, the official student newspaper of the University of Glasgow. Her writing has appeared in print papers such as …

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Sonia Singha

I am a wanderer and a storyteller...

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Latest Articles

Movie Review: In Malayalam Film '19(1)(a)', the Personal Is the Political

The complexity of the idea of freedom of speech is generally not reflected in films tackling the subject that generally take the hackneyed form of a political courtroom drama or a crime thriller. 19(1)(a) is impactful because it puts the focus on how an ordinary person quietly taking agency over …
By Angela Therese Mathew
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How and Why India Subjects Environmental Activism to Political Violence

Praful Patel, the newly-appointed administrator for Lakshadweep, India’s smallest union territory, seems to have missed the memo on the impending climate crisis. Since February 2021, Patel has introduced a series of new laws that are in utter conflict with the region’s cultural as well as ecological past, present and future. …
By Aryan Rai
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Maharashtra: Schools Yet to Reopen, Yet Offline Exams in the Offing

The Maharashtra government has announced that the offline exams for higher secondary certificate and secondary school certificate will be conducted on April 23 and 29 respectively. The announcement has come amid a situation where schools falling under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are yet to reopen and students in the …
By Gokul KP
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'Soorarai Pottru' Shows Why We Need More Women Calling the Shots

Among the many things that are commendable about Sudha Kongara’s Soorarai Pottru (2020) is the characterisation of Bommi (Aparna Balamurali). She is Bommi, not ‘Maara’s wife’ or the ‘hero’s love interest’. You see evidence of this distinction through the course of the film. Bommi lights up the screen with her …
By Divya Venkattu
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Radha Blank Defies Time, Embraces Vulnerability In 'The Forty-Year-Old Version'

“Dark, f***ed up, seedy-ass tenements The roof is where gangs rape old ladies just for sentiment, yeah Now this s**t is getting real ghetto prolific Ain’t no hipsters gentrifying Gotta keep this s**t authentic” The moment Radha put on her headphones, flipped open her notepad and blurted out the lines …
By Ayushman Basu
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'Unjust and Unfair': DU Students Reject Online Semester Exams

Delhi University is a Central university with a diverse student body from all across the nation. More than 10,000 students attend college annually, leaving behind their homes, with the hope of building a secure future for themselves. However, COVID-19 has slowed down the education system owing to a nationwide lockdown …
By Saumya Rastogi
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Why Online Examinations Make For Unfair Testing

Last month, the ministry of home affairs issued an advisory regarding Zoom – a popular video conferencing app – declaring it “unsafe” and vulnerable to unauthorised interception, and issued a set of guidelines for those who still wish/need to use it. With coronavirus enforcing lockdowns across the world, the ‘work …
By Vartika Rastogi
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The Relevance of Manto's 'Mottled Dawn' in Today's World

‘He is not dead. There is still life left in him.’ ‘O leave it, my friend, I am exhausted.’ Exhausted. That’s how many of us have been feeling lately. This isn’t something that only those part of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests are feeling, or those devastated by the recent …
By Ayushman Basu
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What Growing up in an Indian Middle-Class Household Taught Me About Sustainability

I grew up in a Indian middle-class nuclear family – the kind where you squeeze the toothpaste get to the last little bit, use the soap until it’s so tiny it could evaporate and use the empty Bournvita jars for storing pulses and grains. In essence, we made sure wastage …
By Sonia Singha
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