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let’s rename movies!
Listen up Yogi Adityanath, we have some ideas The government’s current rechristening exercise is perhaps the most grandiose of schemes that have been introduced in recent times. Not just grandiose, its political gains are guaranteed too. With that kind of assurance, every politician worth his name, from West Bengal to Faizabad, has jumped onto the […]
Fighting for a healthy life
My lungs were almost destroyed due to air pollution. In November last year, while I was training for a long-distance race in Delhi one evening, I started wheezing. Initially, I thought that it was not something serious. But later, I started having frequent headaches, itching and redness in the eyes and nasal irritation. I visited […]
Going home is not an option
When a couple opts for adoption, very few consider children with special needs. Foreigners often do. What holds us back? For four long years, Kajal (name changed), has been waiting for some kind couple to come and adopt her. This 11-year-old was abandoned at the age of seven and now stays at a childcare home […]
Denial on flimsy grounds
My daughter Aarti Kumari suffers from complete blindness in one eye, partial blindness in the other. She is studying in the 9th grade in a Delhi government school. We were informed by the school teacher that we can get a disability certificate. Thus, we went to a hospital run by the Delhi government. But there, […]
‘People need to speak up’
I have been staying in Noida Sector-41 for the last 13 years. Here, we frequently have to deal with the issue of contaminated water. Last Wednesday (October 31), the water that was being supplied appeared yellowish and the stench was sewer-like. Initially, we thought that they might have put some medicine in the water for […]
Tiny tenants
These microbes have been shown to control, influence and modify important aspects of our bodies and lives Microbes are just about any living organism that is too small to be seen with the naked eye. Bacteria, viruses, protists, fungi are all microbes. Hardly visible, these tiny beings are almost everywhere. Without a microscope, it is […]
Keep extremism at bay
There are lessons we can learn from Pakistan unless we want to end up like them Just as the Pakistani state and society has internalised the ‘good Taliban, bad Taliban’ policy, Indian state and society seem to have embarked on the course of internalising ‘good extremist, bad extremist’ distinction. Over the years, the public discourse […]
L’il heroes
Many HIV positive children are living precarious lives without their parents as they are either orphans or were abandoned. A look into how they are coping with the strict medical regimen “Catch,” says Ashna, while playing with her favourite ball in the park. Her game gets interrupted when she is asked to come inside for […]