Category: Change Your Mind
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Women On The Move: Fearless And Free
By ANCHITA GHATAK —- THE Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, recently announced that women could use state run public transport for free. He also said that women who wished to pay were welcome to pay and explained that this measure would make it safe for women to travel by public transport. Rarely do political…
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Youth Employability…Beyond Job Placements
By PRIYA AGRAWAL —- LATA’s expression that day was a mix of delight, surprise, disbelief and pride. She had made it through the Marriott interview. She could not wait for Monday and her first day of work. Among 423million young adults in India, Lata used to be one of the 13.2% of youth her age…
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Sex, Death And Charity
By SARA ADHIKARI —- STRUNG together, these three words seem like an odd combination or, at best, click bait. But in my experience, all of them are linked by the squirm factor that private conversations on the subjects inevitably evoke. Take my dearly departed dad, for instance, or Baba as I called him. As a…
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Taking Greenwash Route to Fix Plastic Crisis
By NIVEN REDDY —- THE issue with plastic is evident for everyone to see: it fills our streets and waterways and now we know that plastic particles have entered our food systems too. So how do we address this issue? How can we prevent our families from ingesting toxic plastic during every meal? Certainly not…
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Football: Game Changer On And Off The Pitch
AISHWARYA and Yuvraj are among the first team members of Shining Stars Football Club, a not for profit programme of PASS Collective who work with girls and boys from marginalised urban communities of Bengaluru, Karnataka. With our focus on children and youth this month, here the teenagers tell us how football has helped them face challenges,…