Bunking the traps

Festivals like Durga Puja enable the youth to explore the world, gain more confidence and maturity. they lead to more gender, social and economic empowerment “Let’s meet tonight. I will be with my parents, but they will go home soon. Will ping you then,” texted Maitri (name changed) to her friends’ WhatsApp group. She is […]

Six degrees of separation

Annoyed by the regular text messages from banks and mobile service providers to link Aadhaar with the accounts and SIMs? Scared if they will freeze your deposited money, and block the mobiles? Confused because Ravi Shankar Prasad, the information and technology, and law minister, tweets, “No need to link Aadhaar with all these facilities”? In […]

Trump v Trans

From removing LGBTQ page from the white house website to rescinding anti-discriminatory laws in education and employment, trump has changed his tune in one year On July 26, US President Donald Trump tweeted that transgender citizens will no longer be accepted in the US military to avoid the burden of “the tremendous medical costs and […]

Is this a City that Cares?

Patriot presents a ground report on how able the capital is to deal with the needs of the differently-abled citizens On the whole, the Indian society has learnt several lessons to socially accept and absorb the people with various disabilities. The terminology changed, and they are called differently-abled. For the nearly 27 million such people, […]

WannaCry? Here you go

The recent ransomware attack questions the security of data storage. The supreme court will take up the larger issue of privacy in the Whatsapp case India was one of the several countries hit by the global cyber-attack several days ago. The Kaspersky Lab recorded over 45,000 attacks in nearly 100 countries, which included Russia, UK, […]

Hey, how do I look?

Technology is changing the way people dress: from checking in the mirror, seeking advice over selfies, to consulting AI-enabled digital style assistants “I have pinged you a picture. Tell me, how I look in this dress?” This is a question that we often ask our  friends, relatives or colleagues. It’s one of the most challenging […]

Fire and smoke

UN-WHO wants to squeeze tobacco industry globally; non-State actors hope to undermine such policies In November 2016, the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), a network of 500 global organisations in 100 nations, met with health officials and politicians across the world. The seventh Conference of the Parties, or COP7 as it is called, felt sure that […]