How to make an informed choice

When it comes to abortion and contraception, women need to be aware of the medico-legal status and their sexual and reproductive rights. Here is some expert advice India was amongst the first few countries to create a legal and policy framework guaranteeing access to abortion and contraception. Despite this, women and girls continue to experience […]

Young lives on the rails

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 […]

Women cops save the day

If you’re a woman and you find yourself in some kind of trouble and need help, the reflex action  is to instinctively dial 1091. The women constables who receive your call, the ones that set the ball rolling, are actually sitting in a room surrounded with telephones, wires, and beeps and boops, trying to get […]

Access allowed

With the launch of ‘e-Abhilekh’, a Department of Archives website, almost 4 crore documents dating back to Mughal era are being digitised. Patriot finds out the importance of these documents Ever wondered who owns the heritage buildings in Chandni Chowk? Or what the 19th century farmans of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II look like? Documents […]

Business as usual

Local traders say there is no need to blame anyone for the hotel fire that killed 17, it was an “accident” A day after the ghastly fire at Karol Bagh’s Hotel Arpit Palace that killed 17 people, life goes on uninterrupted. There are crowds on the streets, Tank Road and Gurudwara Road markets are doing brisk […]

When roofs came down

The hailstorm created snow-like vistas in Noida but brought disaster to a village in Greater Noida — in a matter of seconds “There was a sudden bolt of lightning and something that looked like a ball of fire. It sounded as if an aeroplane or a helicopter was landing. We lost everything in the blink […]

Two-year wait for surgery

In 2017, around June or July, I came to Delhi from Bihar. Since then I have been living here. My daughter Jyoti, now 12-year-old, is suffering from a spinal deformity for five years now. She is not able to walk, neither sit for long. She cannot even attend school, as we fear she might fall […]

WHEN IN ‘DILLI’

Delhi is a city that one might not instantly fall in love with. But once you get used to it, it brings out a version of you that you never knew existed As the wheels of the airplane skidded to a halt on the landing strip at Indira Gandhi International Airport, I started to panic. […]