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‘Having my love beside me makes me happy’
A boatman working at the Nigambodh Ghat near Delhi’s Kashmere Gate for 25 years is married to a woman from a rich Muslim family. Religion is no obstacle in their happiness The river Yamuna holds great significance for the people worshipping it and living around it. Many others worry about the pollution which is eroding […]
Plight of strays in summer
Many stray animals suffer during summer due to the heat. Usually, animals prefer to stay under the shade of trees, but because of humans, lots of trees have been damaged. There’s no shade left for them. Humans are selfish, they only think of themselves — during winter, they cut the trees for sunlight. And due […]
Man vs machine
Launched with much fanfare in February, sewage cleaning machines are set to bring empowerment of disadvantaged castes and eradicate manual scavenging. How is Delhi Government’s initiative working on the ground? We find out Sewage cleaning in India is not just a question of development agenda or civic responsibility—it’s a matter of life and death. Since […]
Injured, insulted, defamed
Alam was assaulted on the night of May 25 in Gurugram as CCTV shows but there are some discrepancies in different narratives The Jama Masjid in Gurugram’s Jacobpura is more than a century old. With a freshly painted pink edifice, it imposes itself upon the sprawling and boisterous Sadar Bazaar which is criss-crossed by narrow […]
The battle for ‘one’
Because why should anyone be Number 2? While the Bharatiya Janata Party has come out as a clear winner in the Lok Sabha polls, TV channels are still battling it out among themselves on who won the TRP race when it came to reporting on general elections. Over the past 24 hours or so, major […]
Opening up a dialogue on autism
The questions and concerns of parents and caregivers of children with autism or associated spectrum disorders are being collated by researchers Born to educated parents in Mississippi, five-year-old Donald Triplett was described by his psychiatrist and physician Leo Kanner in this way: “Even at an early time he was happiest when left alone, almost never […]
Internship exposes students to mental health issues
About 4,000 Class 11 and 12 students of 250 schools completed a 6-day summer internship with Fortis School Mental Health Programme in early June. About 140 schools out of these were from Delhi-NCR, and the others from metropolitan cities. This innovative programme was initiated by famous psychiatrist Dr Samir Parikh, who heads Fortis Healthcare’s Department […]
Dark secrets of the forest
An anthropologist goes on a trek with a Naxal platoon travelling from Bihar to Jharkhand and returns with an account that portrays rampant casteism among Left-wing extremists in India In Jharkhand, a London-based professor of anthropology discovered NGO workers in Land Rovers, development funds siphoned off by local elites, votes bought during elections, corporate honchos […]