Drafters of the Delhi master plan 2041 need to come out of their ivory tower and see how pathetic has been the implementation of the 2021 Plans Javed has wandered through the lanes of Chawri Bazaar since he was a child. Now a man in his 40s, he says there has been no improvement in […]

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Men’s reluctance to use contraception has pushed women into opting for measures that are injurious to health, despite rising levels of education “There are times when I’ve told my husband to get sterilised. I have already had two surgeries for our babies, I don’t want another surgery”. But 33-year-old Reena Lal’s* husband, has given her […]

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Sant Aatmabodhanand has taken it upon himself to continue the hunger strike started by the late Sant Sanand to ensure the free flow of the Ganga Like most people in their early 20s figuring out the direction to take in life, a young man studying computer science in Kerala had one of those dilemmas. In […]

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IIT Delhi students can use an app-based cycle service to get around the campus. The rental is just two bucks plus GST for 15 minutes The alarm goes off. The snooze button is pressed more than a couple of times. When our future engineer finally awakens, it’s 10 minutes to the start of class. This […]

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In a recent protest rally in the Capital, hundreds of children and activists raised their voice for free and equal education. A system where every student gets the same opportunities For a mid-February day, the blazing sun was not unusual, not for Delhi. For the hundreds marching from Sansad Marg — where they had earlier […]

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…in a government job, that is the question I grapple with every time I have to meet a bureaucrat Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair… In seventy-seven and sixty-nine, revolution was in the air… I was born too late, into a world that doesn’t care Oh I wish […]

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At Delhi’s busy railway stations, child traffickers use every trick up their sleeve to evade detection, but social workers are close at their heels A sea of people, some making their way to trains, some getting off, others waiting, occupying every inch of space on the platforms. This is a common feature in Delhi’s train […]

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Despite living near the Yamuna, farmers don’t touch the water; others think it will be drinkable soon Having spent decades toiling over a small plot of land they call their khet (farm), a grizzled Dharampal seems older than the 60 years he claims to be. About 30 of those years have been spent on the […]

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